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JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN, 

(A SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS), 
DELIVERED IN THE 

SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, 

Forty-ninth Congress, Second Session, 
FEBRUARY 9, 1887. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



LIFE AND CHARACTER 



OF 



JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN 

(A SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS), 
DELIVERED IN THE 

SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, 

Forty-ninth Congress, Second Session, 
FEBRUARY 9, 1887. 



WASHINGTON. 
1887. 






Gift 

Mrs. B.-njamin Harrison 
June 9 1934 



MEMOEIAL ADDRESSES 

ox THE 

LIFE AND CHARACTER 

OF 

JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN, 



The Chaplain, Rev. J. G. B'JTLER, D. D. , offered the following 
prayer: 

PRAYER. 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, ac- 
cording to His abundant mercy, hath begotten in us a living hope by 
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incor- 
ruptible and nndeliled, and that fadeth not away. 

Let the words of our lips and the meditation of our hearts be accepta- 
ble in Thy sight, O Lord, our strength and our Redeemer. Aiid as we 
turn away from the open grave with sympathizing hearts may we ever 
be filled with the spirit of Him who is touched with the feeling of our 
infirmities, the great Redeemer, : the conqueror cf^^eath, who liveth 
and reigneth forever. 

Inspire us, we pray Thee, with courage and with faith, as from day 
to day we meet the responsibilities and trials and temptations inci- 
dent to this mortal life. Fill us ever with Thy Good Spirit, sanctify- 
ing Thy providences, comforting those who are in sorrow, O Thou 
judge of the widow and Thou father of the fatherless ones, enabling 
us to meet the duties of each day with courage, with fortitude, with 
I'aith, and with patience, so serving our generation that when we shall 
I'all asleep we may enter upon the everlasting rest. Blot out all our 
transgressions, and grant us grace and peace. Our Father, who art in 
in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be 
done upon earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. 
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for Thine is the 
kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 

Mr. CULLOM. Mr. President, I ask leave to introduce resolutions 
at this time. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Illinois presents 
resolutions, which will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved by the Senate, That as an additional niarli of respect to the memory 
of John A. Logan, long a Senator from tlie State of Illinois, and a distinguished 
member of this body, business b" now suspended, tliat the friends and associ- 
ates of the deceased may pay tilting tribute to liis public and private virtues. 

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to communicate these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and to furnish an engrossed copy 
of the same to the family of the deceased Senator. 



Mr. CULLOM. Mr. President, for the third time witiiiu a year 
we are called upon to raise our voices reverently in speaking of our 
dead. For the third time within a year death has laid his icy tingeroa 
a brother Senator and beckoned him to the unknown realms of eter- 
nity. 

To-day we lay our tribute of love upon the tomb of Logan. 

Suffering from a sense of personal loss too deep to find expression, I 
despair of being able to render adequate praise to his memory. 

But yesterday, as it seema, he stood among us here in the full flush 
of robust manhood. A gixint in strength ami endurance, with a will 
of iron, and a constitution tough as the sturdy oak, he seemed to hold 
within liis grasp more than the threescore years and ten alloted to man. 
No one thought in the same moment of I^ogau and death — two con- 
querors who should come face to face, and the weaker yield to the 
stronger. It seemed as if Logan could not die. Yet, in a moment, in 
the twinkling of an eye, as it were, " God's linger touched him, and he 
slept." 

Almost without warning he passed from strength to weakness; to 
death and de«iy, from life pulsating with vigor to dare and to do. The 
physician's skill, the loving, agonized, devotion of those most dear, his 
own invincible will, were alike powerless to resist the approach of the 
grim destroyer who stole upon him "as a thief in the night," and has 
given us another striking warning of the fact that " No king nor na- 
tion one moment can retard the appointed hour." 

John Alexander Logan was born on a farm located in what is now , 
the town of Murphysboro, in Jackson County, Illinois, on February 
9, 1826. Had he lived until to-day, sixty-one years — eventful, glo- 
rious years — would have rested their burden as a crown upon his head. 
Life is a crucible into which we are thrown to be tried. How many 
but prove the presence of alloy so base that refining "seven times" can 
not purify. But here was a life generous and noble, an open book from 
which friend and foe alike might read the character of the man. 

General Logan was the eldest of a taraily of eleven children. His 
father. Dr. John Logan, was born in the north of Ireland of Scotch 
ancestry, and came to this country early in this century. He first set- 
tled in Maryland and then in Missouri, afterward moving to Illinois 
and locating in .lackson County. There he met and married Miss Eliza- 
V)eih .lenkins, who was a native of North Carolina, but came of a Scotch 
family. Dr. Logan was a man of nuvrked characteristics, and a phy- 
sician and surgeon of unusual skill. 

He was noted for his integrity, his sturdy independence of character, 
his devotion to his friends, and his recognition of the equality of all 
men who were hone.st and upright, without regard to their social 
position. His wife was a woman of determined courage, strong in her 
prejudices, who never swerved from the path she had once marked out 
for herself. The characteristics of the father and mother were con- 
spicuously combined in the son, who owed his success in life largely 
to the possession of the traits most prominent in the character of both 
his father and his mother. 

The professional services of Dr. Logan were in such demand that he 
had little time to devote to the c;ireof his farm or the education of his 
children, but he was an educuited and studious mai>, and gave his 
(;hildrenthe best educational facilities he could command. 

In those days money and schools were scarce in that new country, 
and the education of the youth was not considered so essential as it is 



lo-day, but Dr. Logan managed to secure the services of a tutor who 
resided in the family and trained the children in the branches not 
taught in the schools of that day, including the rudiments of Greek 
and Latin. While young Logan failed to receive such a classical train- 
ing as a college gives, he was eager and quick to learn, and made the 
most of his opportunities. 

Reared upon a farm under such circumstances, his character was un- 
consciously molded and formed by surroundings similar to those which 
gave to Lincoln that strength and steadfastness which served him so 
well in later years. The men with whom young Logan came in con- 
tact during his boyhood were generally without the refinements of life, 
but they were rugged, sturdy, and self-reliant, of powerful physique 
and healthy intellects. His association with these vigorous, hardy, pio- 
neers of civilization imbued the young man with unconquerable en- 
ergy, indomitable will, and a stern sense of honor which through his 
manhood to the end of his life made him a master spirit among men. 

At the age of sixteen he was sent to Shiloh College and subsequently 
added to the education obtained there whatever he could glean from 
the books within his reach. When barely of age he made his entrance 
int<j manhood upon the field of battle. 

When the Mexican war broke out young Logan plunged into it with 
all the fire and enthusiasm of his nature, enlisting in the First Illinois 
Volunteer Infantry. Though then but twenty years of age, he served 
with distinction, and by the end of the war had become quartermaster 
of his regiment. This beginning of his career might have been to him 
an omen of future fame to be won on fields of blood. On returning 
home he was received as a student in the law office of Alexander M. 
Jenkins, his mother's brother, but, being an ardent admirer of Stephen 
A. Douglas, Logan soon became fascinated with political life, and in 
less than a year was elected clerk of Jackson County. 

In 1850 he became a student in the law department of Louisville 
University, graduating in the spring of 1851 , and entering upon the prac- 
tice of law at Murphysboro in partnership with his uncle. In 1852 
he was elected to the State Legislature, and soon afterwards to the 
office of prosecuting attorney for the judicial district in which he re- 
sided. In this position he was called upon to prosecute some remark- 
able criminal cases, and it is a notable fact that he secured aconvictionin 
all the cases which he prosecuted and tried. 

On the 27th of November 1855 he was married to Miss Mary S. Cunning- 
ham, a daughter of Capt. J. M. Cunningham, and established his home 
and law office in Benton, in theadjoiningcounty of Franklin. In 1856 
he was again elected to the State Legislature, audit was during the ses- 
sion of 1857 that it became myprivilege to become acquainted with this 
remarkable man, who at that time demonstrated his power as a leader. 

. In 1858 Mr. Logan was elected to represent his district in Congress, 
and from the time he took his seat in the House of Representatives his 
rise was rapid and his public career became known to the country. 

He had not been cradled in luxury. Fortune had not been especi- 
ally kind to him, but he had been bred honest to the core, was incapa- 
ble of meanness, and among the strong men of that Congress, the 
young, resolute, courageous Representative from Illinois held his own. 
He was again elected to Congress in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was 
elected President. Logan was elected as a Douglas Democrat, and had 
advocated the election of Douglas to the Presidency with all his power 
before the people. When Lincoln was elected and mutterings of re- 



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hellion and whisperings of secession were heard, the fire of patriotism 
began to burn in his breast, and on the floor of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, ou the 5th of February, 18()1, before the inauguration of 
President Lincoln, he defined his position upon the burning question 
of the hour in the following unmistakable terms: 

I have been taught— 

He said — 

that tlie preservation of this glorious Union, with its broad flag waving over 
us as the shield of our protection on land and sea, is paramount to all parties 
and platforms that ever have existed or ever can exist. I would to-day, if I had 
the power, sink my own party and every other one, with all their platforms, 
into the vortex of ruin, without heaving a sigh or shedding a tear, to save the 
Union, or even to stay the revolution where it is. 

What a declaration of unselfish patriotism ! Placing party and plat- 
forms under his feet, he was first of all for the Union and the flag, which 
were dearer than all else to him. With the flash of the first gun which 
thuudered its doom upon Sumter he was up and in arms. Conse- 
crating all the energy of his ardent nature to the cause of the Union, 
he left his seat in Congress, saying he could best serve his country in 
the field. Falling into the ranks of the Union Army he took his part 
JUS a civilian volunteer in the first battle of Bull Run. 

To describe the part he took in the late war after he raised the Thirty- 
first Illinois Regiment and took the field.would be to recite the history 
of the war itself — a story impressed as in letters of fire upon the mem- 
ory of the American people. The record of his bravery at Belmont; of 
his gallant charge at Fort Donelson, where, as a colonel, he was dan- 
gerously wounded; of his service as major-general commanding the 
Army of the Tennessee; of the memorable siege ofVicksburg, when 
with the great leader of the Union armies he stood knocking at the door 
of that invincible stronghold; of his service with the gallant Sherman 
in his famous "march to the sea" — all are written on the pages of his- 
tory to lend undying luster to the name of Logan. 

It is said that poets are born, not made. So it may be truly said that 
General Logan was a natural soldier. Every instinct within him was 
inspired with fervid love of his country. His figure was massive, his 
shoulders broad, his presence commanding, with his swarthy face and 
coal-black hair, and "eye like Mars to threaten or command," he was 
every inch a warrior. The soldiers of the late war believed in him as 
a leader in the field, and those of that great Union army who survive 
him mourn his loss to-day as their nearest, most earnest, ablest, and 
most devoted friend. 

During the war General Logan rose by regular promotion through 
every grade from colonel to the highest rank, save that of lieutenant- 
general, that the nation could bestow in recognition of his bravery and 
great capacity as an officer. How. appropriately the words which, on 
April 6, 1870. he pronounced in eulogy of that other great soldier. 
General George H. Thomas, can now be applied to himself. On that 
occasion General Logan said of General Thomas, as we can now say of 
him: 

He has gone. Grief sits visibly on every soldier's brow and pervades every 
loyal heart of the nation. Mis noble form lies low ready to be committed to its 
kindred dust. Earth never received into her bosom a manlier form or a nobler 
breast. Tlie halo of his deeds and brilliancy of his achievements may almost be 
said to illuminate the grave into which his body descends, and the fragrance of 
his acts of kindness perfumes his sepulchre. Ho has gone from our sight, but 
not from our hearts and our memory ; he must live on embalmed by our love and 



e-arlanded -with our afl'ection, his name Krowiiif? brighter and brighter as time 
rolls on. The cold marble Ijears in mockery a name forgotten bntforthe letfer.s 
chiseled on the icy slab. It can not be so with the name of General George 
Henry Thomas, which is chiseled on the tablets of too many hearts to need the 
aid of marble or bronze to perpetuate it. 

Is it enough to say of General Logan that he was the greati st 
vohinteer general of the Union army ? By no means. A quarter of 
a century and more has passed since that terrible struggle, and civil 
honors were won by him during that period as rapidly as military ones 
were won during the war. When gentle peace, which " hath her vic- 
tories no less renown'd than those of war," returned, he was at once 
called to again take his place in the councils of the nation. _ Twice elected 
to the House of Representatives since the war and three times chosen by 
the Legislature of his State to represent it in the Senate, it may be 
truly said that General Logan spent his life in the active service of his 
country. He was a man of high honor and singular boldness and frank- 
ness of character. He made no concealments. He fought always 
openly and above-board. His integrity was beyond the whisper of 
suspicion. 

He was aggressive and impulsive with the courage of his convictions. 
Eager to do, tireless in effort, persistent in purpose, by his indomitable 
will he made each obstacle in his path a stepping-stone to greater 
things. The more he was antagonized the stronger he became, and, as 
in battle, he pushed on until his enemies gave way and left him master 
of the situation. Goethe has said that "he who is firm in will molds 
the world to himself;" and so it could be said of Logan, who had be- 
come recognized as one of the most prominent factors in national af- 
fairs. 

As a Senator he devoted himself steadfastly to the duties which crowd 
a Senatorial life, never turning a deaf ear to the appeals of his constitu- 
ents, or from whatever quarter of the country they came. He was a ready 
speaker, full of energy and forceful in manner, and when aroused by 
debate and the importance of the subject he would pour forth thoughts 
that breathe and words that burn into the ears of his hearers. 

Many passages may be selected I'rom General Logan's writings and 
addresses which exhibit his ardent patriotism and love for the Union. 
In a letter to his friend, General Haynie, a gallant Union soldier, on 
December 31, 1861, he said: 

I am for the Union, and for maintaining it, if such a thing is possible, and 
am uncompromisingly opposed to any man or set of men that countenance dis- 
union, with its horrible consequences. There is no sacrifice I would not make 
for it. I have no opinions that I am so wedded to that I would not modify them 
in any way, consistent with the honor of my constituents and myself, to give 
peace to the country. 

Again he said, in an address to the people of Chicago on August 10, 
1863, while fresh from the field of battle: 

I do not propose to discuss party politics or questions with a view to the ad- 
vancement of any party organization, but desire only to speak to you with ref- 
erence to the troubles that now environ thecountry and threaten the perpetuity 
of the Government. * * * In this war I know no party. * * * Althougli 
I have always been a Democrat, and cherish the doctrines of that old and hon- 
ored party, yet in this contest I was for any man, let him belong to whatever 
party he might, who wag for his country. 

Being criticised for being an Abolitionist, General Logan said: 
If If it makes a man an Abolitionist to love his country, then I love my coun- 
' try, and am willing to live for it and willing to die for it. 

General Logan's devotion to his country was the moving impulse of his 
heart, and he was willing, from the hour in which he saw the danger 



threatening the perpetuity of the Union, to give his life to save it. When 
the war w;us over and the integrity of the Union had been maintained, 
■when he had laid aside his victorious sword, he used the following lan- 
guage in a speech at Louisville, Ky., on July 21, 1865: 

Peace has come at last. * * * The dark clouds of war that have been piling 
in terrific grandeur along the soutlurn horizon for four long years, and ever 
and anon bursting with fatal and fearful fury upon the land, have at last, 
Heaven be praised, rolled away. The trumpet clangor and the cannon's roar 
resound no longer from embattled plains. God grant that they nevermay again; 
that it may be as literally true of the soldiers who survive as it is bound to be 
of those who "sleep their sleep" that they have all "fought their last battle." 

Like his great and true friend, General Grant, while General Logan 
was a great soldier, he did not love war, but with a heart full of human 
sympathy he loved peace and preferred her victories to those of war. 
Logan had a tender and sympathetic nature. His heart was full of 
sorrow for the sick, the wounded, and the dyiug soldiers who were con- 
stantly around him. He regarded the institution of slavery as the 
cause of the war and all its attendant distress, and in the address at 
Louisville already referred to he used these graphic words: 

Oh, that I had the power to bring together all the slaveholders of the land, 
and have them look on in solemn silence while the cripples, the widows, and 
orphans that have been made by this war could pass before them in grand re- 
view and tell their tales of misery and woe that slavery has brought_ upon 
them. Were their hearts not made of stone they would melt while gazing at 
such a scene, and with one voice they must cry out: "Let the land be at once 
rid of the curse that has caused such a dreadful scene as this." 

General Logan's earnest feelings in regard to those who fought to 
preserve the Union are illustrated by a statement made in a speech in 
the other wing of this Capitol in 1867, when, in speaking on the sub- 
ject of the reconstruction of the States that had been in rebellion, he 
.said: 

God forbid that the day shall ever dawn upon this Republic when the patriots 
whose patriotism won them crutches and wooden limbs shall have apologies 
and explanations to make for their public conduct ! 

Mr. President, I make these few quotations from the many striking 
passages that illuminate General Logan's addresses in Congress and to 
the people to show how earnest and undivided was his devotion to his 
country, his love for his companions in arms, and his opposition to 
slavery as the cause of the war. 

General Logan was the idol of the volunteer soldiers of the late war, 
and since the war closed no man in the nation has been so universally 
recognized by them as a friend upon whom they could confidently rely 
for help as he was. His heart went out to them and theirs to him. 
On one occasion he said: 

My consent can never be commanded to ignore the claims that I feel the gal- 
lant dead who fell fighting under our flag have upon my devotion to their fame 
while I live. 

The death of no man since the war has been so sorrowfully mourned 
by tlie volunteer soldiery of the Union as has been the death of Gen- 
eral Logan. The soldier of that grand army mourns his loss to-day as 
"one wlio will not be comforted." 

Vou will call to mind, Mr. President, General Logan's speeches on 
education, on the needs of the Army, his defense of General Grant, and 
his arraignment of General Fitz John Porter. These constitute an im- 
portant part of the records of Senatorial debate?, and should be classed 
among the ablest and most exhaustive speeches ever made in the Sen- 
ate. As a political leader General Logan was conspicuously successful. 



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He was naturally in the front rank, whether on the field of battle or in 
political contests. Living iu an era when corruptiou was not uncom- 
mon, when strong men of both jiarties sometimes stood aghast and saw 
their reputations blasted by public exposure, he remained throughout 
his long public career above suspicion. 

"Wealth could not tempt him to soil his spotless name. He never 
used the opportunities of his official position as a means of obtaining 
gold. He died as he had lived, a poor man. 

Throughout his long and conspicuous public career he came many 
times before the people, but there never was a ghost of dishonor in his 
past to rise up and cry upon him shame. May his children ' ' rejoice and 
be glad" in the example of a father of whom the whole nation could 
rise up and say, ' ' There was an honest man. ' ' 

But let us not indulge in adulation. General Logan was not a per- 
fect man. Faults had he, "child of Adam's stem," but they were 
small, and served by comparison but to enhance his virtues. His preju- 
dices were sometimes narrow, but he was never a hypocrite. He 
never professed to be what he was not. 

He sometimes erred, for he was possessed of like passions with other 
men. He sometimes alienated a Iriend, as every strong, independent 
man must in the course of a public career. He had his bitter enemies, 
but, in the words of a revered and venerable friend of General Logan's, 
ex-Senator Simon Cameron, "a man who makes no enemies is never a 
positive force." Logan was a positive force. He took his position on 
questions as they came up, and was always ready to defend it with all 
his power. 

Mr. President, few men in American history have left so positive an 
impress on the public mind and so glorious a record to be known and 
read of all men as has General Logan. The pen of the historian can 
not fail to write the name of Logan as one prominently identified with 
the great movements and measures which have saved the Union and 
made the nation free and great and glorious within the last thirty years. 

Like Lincoln, his heart and hand were ever for the people. He came 
up from the ranks of the people, believed iu the purity and integrity 
of the masses, and was always ready and eager to speak for them. He 
was a true republican and believed firmly iu republican government. 
He despised tyranny in all its forms wherever he found it. He was 
always true to his convictions and to his friends, and no power or in- 
fluence could induce him to forsake either. 

His sturdy character has been so often demonstrated upon this floor 
and in his work and in his powerful speeches in every part of the coun- 
try, always showing his most earnest devotion to the Union, his never 
flagging zeal in behalf of his comrades-in-arms, his love of liberty and 
human equality, his belief in universal education as in the interest of 
the happiness of the people and of the perpetuity of republican gov- 
ernment, his adherence at all times to his convictions of duty, his un- 
faltering determination to stand by his friends — that it seems needless 
for me to dwell upon it longer. In his remarks in this Senate upon 
an occasion similar to this, in speaking of a once distinguished mem- 
ber of this body, the lamented Chandler, General Logan used the fol- 
lowing language: 

'Tis true the gr.ave in its silence gives forth no voice nor whispers of tlie mor- 
row, but there is a voice borne upon the lips of the morning zephyrs that lets 
fall a whisper, quickening the heart with a knowledge that there is an abode 
beyond the tomb. Sir, our lamps are burning now, some more brightly than 
others; some shed their light from the mountain's top, others from the lowlj- 



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viiles; but let us so trim them that they may all burn with equal brilliancy 
when relighted in our mansions beyond the mysterious river. 
I fondly hope, sir, that there we will atrain meet our departed friend. 

Mr. President, he who uttered those tender words, thus giving ex- 
pression to his faith in the hereal'ter and to his love of his departed 
friend, has gone to join him in the mansions heyond the mjsterious 
river, may we not trust in that hetter land where there is no more pain 
nor suflering nor sorrow, hut in the mansions of eternal bliss. 

As time passes and the men who did the most in the late terrible 
civil war pass rapidly a way one by one we have the consolation of.know- 
ing that they leave to us a united country, with the Union of the States 
restored and liberty secured to all the people, to be transmiteed by us 
to those who come after as a glorious inheritance. 

Death is a good Samaritan, throwing the mantle of charity over the 
faults of men, hurjing in oblivion the sins of the flesh, and bidding 
their good deeds "live after them." 

And now we stand as at an open grave to say our last farewell. 
Here was a man who could ill be spared to country, friends, or home. 
■'Our life is scarce the twinkling of a star in God's eternal day," j'et 
we bow in resignation to the divine decree when the summons comes 
to one weary with the l)urden of years and with labors ended. But to 
see the darkness lall at noon-time, the sun go down while we look for a 
lirighter day, is a mystery of Providence too deep for human compre- 
liension. 

When death claims the strong and great, those to whom we look for 
help and strength, we ask why, why was he taken, and can not under- 
stand the dealings of an Infinite Wisdom. As the autumn leaves 
drop and enrich the soil, so are the great men of our nation falling by 
the way, leaving a golden heritage of honored names and fame to gen- 
erations yet unborn. 

Our friend and brother has crossed to the other shore to join the im- 
mortal throng. He has left adesolate hearthstone, a loved companion, 
prostrate in her grief, refusing to be comforted. His conflicts are over. 
He is at peace " where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary 
are at rest." 

Iri halls of state he stood for many years, 
IJke fabled knight, his visage all aglow! 
Receiving, giving sternly, blow for blow ! 
C'banipion of right ! Rut from eternity's far shore 
Tliy sijirit will return to join the strife no more, 
li'est. soldier-statesman, rest; thy troubled life is o'er. 

Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President, this is not an unmeaning ceremonial. 
The Senate has not paused in its great labors and arrested its important 
service to the people of the United States for the purpose merely of 
indulging in passing eulogistic remarks upon the character of our 
brother who has left us; but we consider that it is due not to him alone 
but to this wliole country that a man who was so marked in his grand 
individuality and splendid characteristics should bespoken of here, and 
that we should contribute what we are able to do to enhance the value 
of his memory (or the sake of posterity as well as for the present gen- 
eration of men. 

The p.itlietic remarks that fell from his lips which were quoted by 
the Senator from Illinois [Mr. Ciillom] at the timethat we were hold- 
ing obse(]uies over the departed Senator from Michigan, Mr. Chandler 
bring forcibly before my mind, as I have no doubt it does before the 



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mind of the Senate, the question, whence has gone this man so power- 
fnlly clothed with every element of strength, goodness and greatness ol' 
character ? Has the Divine hand that fashioned a man like this and 
made it possible for him to build himself up through the toils and la- 
bors and vicissitudes of life found no use for him in the great economy 
of His providence, since that sad and startling moment when he was 
taken, yes, snatched from our midst? I think, sir, of John A. Logan 
to-day as a powerful factor in the hands of his Creator, still working 
out diligently and faithfully the good that he seemed so well designed 
to accomplish. I do not regard him as lost or passed into a mythical 
laud where there is no longer use for the valuable services which he has 
been so conspicuous in rendering to his race while he lived among us. 
I think of him as a living, moving energy, still useful in the great pur- 
poses of the Divine economy. 

I do not come here, Mr. President, to pronounce about a man so sin- 
cere as he was any word of eulogy or praise in which there will be a 
coloring of insincerity. For twenty-five years I was opposed to almost 
every measure of public policy that he espoused. It so turned out that 
in the first battle of the war and in the latest battle in which I partici- 
pated we were confronted with each other. It so turned out that hav- 
ing our political principles cast much in the same mold in early life, 
we separated, as did the sections of this great country, upon questions 
that it appears could not be settled or reconciled otherwise than by war. 

After we had again come in the presence of each other in this Sen- 
ate, he, with an absolute sincerity of purpose, which I claim for my- 
self also, took the opposite view from that which I held of most of 
the great questions that have engaged the attention of this body since 
that time. But in all that he did and in all that he .said John A. 
Logan was a thoroughly sincere and a resolutely upright man. 

The differences of opinion that exist between men in this country, 
where freedom of speech and of debate are sanctioned and encouraged 
by the Constitution and by the traditions of our history, develop men 
who oppose each other with great strength and power frequently, and 
develop even in ordinary men a strength of will and purpose that is 
honorable to them and beneficial to the people. Our divisions of sen- 
timent and opinion are altogether natural and indispensable. They 
merely mean that the questions with which we have to deal are de- 
batable and often doubtful, and that they must finally be settled in 
this body, as in all other legislative bodies in this country, by the 
power of a majority, the minority always yielding to the majority as 
being right in substance and in effect. So that when I controvert with 
a man of the strength of Logan's will and a man of his ability, bis 
learning, his enterprise, and his genius, for he possessed all in a large 
degree, I feel that the combats in which we engage are those ia which 
men on either side may be absolutely sincere. 

John A. Logan was, more than almost any man in my remembrance, 
the typical American of the Western States. He was bo rn and reared 
in the West, that country of marvelous strength, power, and progress. 
All of his efforts were given to the service first of that particular sec- 
tion and afterwards to the more enlarged service of the general country. 
But Logan seemed to be the embodiment of the spirit and power of 
that wonderful West, which has grown and strengthened in our country 
as no other section of this Union ever has within a given time. The 
energy of his nature, the fortitude, the persistence, the industry, the 
courage with which he encountered every question that arose seemed 



merely to exeinplily the pervadiii;^ spirit of the western part of the 
United States, audlie will }^o down to posterity, not because we de- 
scribe him in our speeches here to-day, but because he has described 
himself in every act of his life as a man perfectly understood and the 
reco;;ni/A'd exemplar of one of the strongest and most splendid types 
of American character. 

I confess, Mr. President, that I feel a certain joy in the power of our 
country to develop men like this. I think it is greatly to the credit 
of the country that a man can be brought from the bosom of the peo- 
ple and lifted into the highest stations of place and power witliout in 
the slightest degree losing his identity with them; reflecting here upon 
the floor of the Senate what they feel in their hearts and what they 
believe and teach in their homes, keeping up a perpetual bond of af- 
fectionate union between those highest in authority in this land and 
those who are in the retirement of private life. 

Institutions that can produce men and results like these are worthy 
of preservation, and no man more regrets than I do that there was ever 
one moment of tinie in the history of this country when it seemed to be 
necessary for the i)re-servation of rights that a large portion of the people 
of this country believed to be sacred that these institutions of ours 
should have been put under a threat. That time has passed away, and 
with it all the rancors of the occasion. You can not point out in the 
iiistory of any race of people that degree of mutual magnanimity and 
forbearance that has characterized the people of this great country in 
returning to unite hands and hearts in the maintenance of its institu- 
tions, in the elevation of its honor, and in the perfection of its glory. 

In these eftbrts men who thought and felt as I have thought and felt 
always gladly' stretch forth the luind of honest brotherhood to men like 
.John A. Logan. We were never afraid of such men because they were 
candid and true. Noguile beset that man's life, no evasion, no finesse. 
No merely political strategy ever characterized his conduct in public 
life or marred his honor in private life. He was a bold, pronounced, 
dignitietl, earnest, manly, firm, generous, true man, and I value the 
opportunity to express these sentiments about such a man on the floor 
of the Senate on this solemn occasion. 

Passing beyond the events to which I have alluded, where he and I 
had adverse opinions, and taking this young man in company with 
thousands of his confreres of like age who were in the army that invaded 
Mexico, we find there the earliest display of those qualities which con- 
tinued in unabated vigor and distinctiveness down to the very hour oi 
his death. I have always felt that we had sent out with the army to 
Mexico the very flower of American chivalry in the persons of those 
young men who bore our banners in triumph to the halls of the Mon- 
l€zumas. Scarce a man who distinguished himself in tliat war has not 
received great honors at the hands of his country and has not proved 
himself thoroughly worthy of them. We can scarcely recall an indi- 
viQual who had a prominent place in that war— I do not mean ofiicial 
plixce, but who won his position by dutiful service in that war — who has 
uotreceived at the hands of the American people a complete recognition 
■•I'lhose abilities and courageous manhood which enabled him to go out 
ill this early trial of his life and to prove himself upon those fields as a 
man of valor and of power. 

I believe that no man has died in this country in a half century for 
whom the people of the United States at large had a more genuine re- 
s|)ect or in whom they had greater confidence than in General Lot'an, 



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The Seuate has witnessed on varions occasions his antagonism even 
to his best friends when his convictions led him to separate I'rom them 
upon political and other questions that have been brought beCore the 
Senate. Always courageous, always firm, always true, you knew ex- 
actly where to place him; and when his manly lorm strode across the 
Senate Chamber and he took his seat among his brethren of this boily 
this country as well as this august tribunal felt that a man had ap- 
peared of valor and strength and real ability. 

Though perhaps he could not handle the refinements of disquisition 
and logic with as much skill as some, Logan did not want to use such 
methods in his argument. He desired to have strong materials out of 
which to build powerful argumentation. If the (acts that appeared before 
his mind convinced his judgmentand his conscience that his course was 
right, he seldom stopped to see whether the path that he had marked 
out for himself was one justified by the doctrines of any political party 
or had been explored by some great man. While I feel that there is 
great attention always deserving to matters of the kind I have been 
mentioning, it is nevertheless true that those strong and earnest men 
who take hold of facts as they arise, and in handling them follow the 
dictates of judgment and of conscience, oftener meet the approval of the 
American people than those who refine too much and, from timidity, 
fail to reach the results that the people themselves have fastened their 
hearts upon. 

I am glad, Mr. President, of the opportunity to render to our late 
associate what I conceive to be a merited tribute, and to extend my 
remarks a little further and to say of him that in his domestic relations 
he was one of the fondest and most lovable of men. In that crucial 
test of an honest character and of a gentle and forbearing nature, no 
man excelled John A. Logan. He was a true husband, a true father, 
a true friend, and when that is said of a man, and you can add to it 
also that he was a true patriot, a true soldier, and a true statesman, I 
do not know what else could be grouped into the human character to 
make it more sublime than that. 

Mr. EDMUNDS, Mr. President, I first knew General Logan about 
twenty years ago. He was then a member of the House of Representa- 
tives, and I had just come to the Senate. His fame as a soldier, of 
course, was well known to me. His personal characteristics I then knew 
nothing of. I soon met him in committees of conference and otherwise 
as representing the opinions of the House of Representatives in matters 
of difference with the Senate, and I was struck, as everybody has been 
who has known him, with the very extraordinary characteristics that 
he possessed. They have been stated by his colleague who first ad- 
dressed you and by my friend on the other side of the Chamber — the 
characteristic of candor, the characteristic of simplicity of statement, 
the characteristic of clearness of opinion, the characteristic of that Anglo- 
Saxon persistence in upholding, an opinion once formed that has made 
our British ancestors and our own people the strongest forces for civil- 
ization of which we have any account in the history of the world. 

There was no pretense about the man; there was no ambuscade; 
there was no obscurity. What he was for he understood his reason for 
being for, stated it briefly and clearly, and stuck to it; and that, as 
we all know, and as it always ought to be, means in the great majority 
of instances success, and where success fails it is an instance of honor- 
able defeat. 



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His industry, Mr. President, which I have so long liad opportunity 
to know and to know intimately, for later when he came to the Senate 
it was luy good fortune to serve with him in one of the committees of 
the Senate having a ver^' large amount of work to do — his industry, as 
well as these other characteristics that I have spoken of, was of the 
greatest. He seemed never to tire, to l)e ready to stay out and finish 
the things that were to be done, an example to us all of that fidelity 
to the administration of public interests, the things to be done and ac- 
complished that I think were extremely conspicuous, and I must say 
among the living are somewhat rare. 

So speaking of him, Mr. President, as a Member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives and as a Senator performing his public duty, I can speak 
of him with the simplest sincerity and say that he was entitled, in my 
opinion, to the highest praise for these qualities and these things that 
lie both had and did in perlbrming important public duties. 

No more (uui be said, Mr. President, of any man, whether he have 
the gifl-s of elo(iiionce or the boundless resources of learning. He who 
does his deed of duty in the place where he stands is the best patriot, 
the best citizen, the best legislator, the best ruler, and the best man. 
That he did. 

For many years General Logan and I have sat here side by side. His 
temper, like that of some of those who sat very near to him, was not 
always of the most stolid kind, and he and I, sitting here side by side, 
very often in our constant conversations and intercourse diflered and 
disagreed; we sometimes got warm and angry; but I think I can say 
truly that the sun never went down on his wrath toward me or any 
other man from occasions arising from ditiereuces of ox)inion and warmth 
of words. 

He was the gentlest of hearts, the truest of natures, the highest of 
spirits, that feels and considers the weaknesses of human nature and 
who does not let small things stand in the way of his generous friend- 
ship and aflection lor those with whom he is thrown. And so in the 
midst of a career that had been so honorable in every branch of the 
public service, and witli just ambitions and just powers to a yet longer 
life of great pul)lic usefulness, he disappears from among us — not dead — 
promoted, as I think, leaving us to mourn, not his departure for his 
sake but that the value of his conspicuous example, the strength of 
his consi)icuous experience in public alRiirs, and the wisdom of his coun- 
sels have been withdrawn. 

And so I mourn him for ourselves, not for himself; and so I look upon 
an occasion like this not so much — far from it — for the regrets that be- 
long to personal separations as the testimonial that a great body like 
this should make for ourselves and for our people of a recognition of 
the merits and of the examples and of the services that are to be not 
only a memorial but an iusjiiration to us all and to all our countrymen 
as to tlie just recognition and worth of noble deeds and honest desires. 
And so 1 lay my small contribution upon his grave in this way. 

Mr. MANDERSON. Mr. President, as I stood a few weeks ago by 
the vault that received within its gloomy walls the honored remains of 
.Inhn Alexander Logan, and heard the imr)ressive words of the solemn 
Muial for the dead of the Grand Army of the Republic, it seemed tome 
a most fitting ceremonial. Tiie aged comrade of the order who, in 
tremulous ton&s, read the lines that breathe in every word the spirit of 
fraternity, charity, and loyalty, represented the three hundred and fifty 



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thousand companions in arms, comrades ol the illustrious dead, to 
whom he was endeared by nun'h of sell'-sacrilice and a devotion to their 
interests thi!t never knew fatigue. As the clear, well-sustained notes 
of the bugle hung, as though loth to leave, upou the wintry air, 

And the tiinj^le's hollow tlii'oat 
Froloiijj;ed the swelling Imtfle ndie, 

sounding the call "lights out," it Avas lit finale to the life of activity 
aud contiict so lately ended. It spoke of rest after latigue, of the 
peaceful camp after the wearisome manth, of ([uiet after the diu of 
arms, of sweet sleep after battle. It meant the restful darkness after 
the wakeful light, the covering of the camp-fire to retain its warmth 
until the dawn, tlie promise of the coming day, the resurrection and 
the life f*terual. 

The familiar l)ugle-call brought most vividly to my recollection the 
lirst time I met our friend and citmrade, nearly twenty-live years ago. 
The disaster to our arms on dread Chickamauga's bloody day— the only 
battle approaching defeat that the Army of the Cumberland had ever 
known — had been redeemed by the glorious and substantial victories of 
.Mission Kidge and Lookout Mountain. These battles had beeu won 
with the aid of the Army of the Tennessee, and Sherman, its leader, had 
come to fight by the side of Thomas, "the Rock of Chickamauga. " 

With Grant, the great captain, to direct the movements of these 
most able lieutenants, the victory was assured, and with the capture of 
the rebel stronghold upon the frowning heights of Mission Kidge aud 
lofty Lookout the Georgia campaign, that ended in the capture of At- 
lanta and the march to the sea, that "broke the back of the rebel- 
lion,' ' became possibilities. The fair fame of our brethren of the Ten- 
nessee was familiar to us of the Army of the Cumberland. We had 
fought by their side at Shiloh. We knew of their high emprise at 
Corinth, Champion Hills, and Vicksburg. We had heard and read ot 
Sherman, McPherson, and Logan. 

I do not disparage the bright fame of either of the first two when I 
say that the chief interest centered at that time about the name of the 
third of these famous leaders of the Army of the Tennessee. He was 
the great volunteer soldier. He came from civil life — was without edu- 
cation in the art of war save that which came from a limited experi- 
ence during the war with Mexico. He resigned his position as a mem- 
ber of Congress to enter the army of the Union as a private. With 
burning words of eloquence aud lofty patriotism he gathered his neigh- 
bors of his Congressional district about his recruiting flag, organized 
and became the colonel of the Thirty-first Regiment of Illinois Volun- 
teers. The baptism of blood came to him at Belmont, where he led 
the charging column upon the foe. 

At Fort Henry his regiment captured eight of the enemy's guns. At 
t'ort Douel.sou, while impetuously urging his men to the assault, he 
was badly wounded in the arm and hip but never flinched, and by his 
intrepidity kept his men in place until they were reinforced, their 
(«mmander leaving the field only when faint from loss of blood. 
His regiment in this bloody fray lost 50 per cent, of its number in killed 
and wounded. Promoted to be brigadier-general, he returned before 
full recovery of health and strength, and at Corinth General Sherman 
acknowledged his special obligation to General Logan, and described 
how gallantly "he held the critical ground on the right against a large 
force of the enemy. ' ' 



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Advanced to the coiumaad of a division he saved the day ab Raymoiii], 
and the historian wrote of hira — 

JIc- \vn^ full of zeal and wild with entliiii.iastn. and to his division l«el(inf>s tlie 
honor of the victory. Fearless as a lion, he was in every part of the tieUl and 
S( fMied lo infuse every lunn of his eonimaud with a part of his own indomita- 
ble er.erRy and licry valor. 

At Jack.soii and at Champion Hills his splendid division, as usual, 
itninortalized iL-elf He seemed a born leader, displaying "unfliu(;h- 
iu'.i enduranee, during bravery, and determined energy." Atthe.siege 
of Vicksbiirg, and partictilarly in the as.sault after the mine explosion, 
he was the prominent tigure. His division was the first to enter the 
caplnn'd stronghold on that uiemorable 4th day of Jnly. A witness 
of the scene wrote: 

The General rode at their head worshipped by Iiis men — a man of'iron will 
and lion-like couratit', who .seemed under the blasts of war to ehantj^e into a 
deuii-god. 

As a tribute to his gallantry ixnd etfective service during the siege, 
he was made military governor, and in that capacity displayed won- 
derful executive power in caring for the captured thoitsands of Fem- 
berton's army and the many other thousands of citizens who were re- 
duced almost to sttirvation. He brought "order out of chaos, re- 
strained disorder, and treated the conquered with impartial justice." 

Having been maile major-general of volunteers, he succeeded Gen- 
eral Sherman a.s commander of the Fifteenth Corps. 

His ])arting address to the gallant division he had so frequently led 
to victory is well worth.\ of remembrance. He .siidit "had made for 
it-sell a history to be piond of: a history never to be forgotten; for it 
is written ;us with a pen of fire dipped in ink of blood in the memories 
and in the hearts of all." He besought his men in these words: " Ke- 
meraber the glorious caiissr- you are fighting lor, remember the bleach- 
ing bones of your comrades killed on the bloody fields of Douelson, 
Corinth. Champion Hills, and Vicksburg, or who perished by disea.se 
duriiiii tlie past two years of hardship and exposure, and swear by 
these imperishable memories never, while life remains, to prove recre- 
ant to the trust Heaven has confided to your charge." 

This was the meteoric military career of the junior of the three 
.splendid soldiei-s who came from the great valley they had immortal- 
ized by their valor to the ci-ntral West, to join with Thomas, Scholield, 
and Hooker in the campaign against Atlanta — "the gate city of tlie 
South." 

I first saw Logan in front of the confederate position on Kenesaw 
Mountain, when his corps made that desperate assault upon Litth; 
Kenesaw — .so fruitless in results, so costly in human life. The sight 
was an inspiration. Well mounted — "he looked of his horse a part." 
His swartliy complexion, long black hair, compact figure, stentorian 
voice, and eyes that .seemed to blaze " with the light of battle," made 
■J, fiijnre once seen never to be forgotten. In action he was the very 
spirit of war. His nuignificent presence would make a coward light. 
He seemed a resistless force. 

The .sword 
Of Miehuel. from the armory of (Jod, 
Was Kiven him. L.Mnpered so that neither keen 
Nor solid ini,!,'ht resist that edije. 

The splendid record of achievements won along the Missi.s.sippi was 
to remain unbroken. His uiime is written upon every page of the 



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Georgia campaii:n of over cue hundred days of constant liglitiuir. Hays 
one of the historians of the Army of the Cuniherhind: "As the united 
armies advanced aioiij^ the battle line, where for four months the tirin<r 
never wholly i:eased by day or by night, everltody came to know I.ogan. 
IJrave, vigilant and aggressive, he won universal applause. Prudent 
for his men and reckless in exposing his own ])erson, he excited general 
admiration. 

^Yllen the lines were close his own head(]uarters were often scarcely 
out of sight of the pickets, and he generally had a hand in whatever 
deadly work might spring up along his front. 

At Kesaca, at Dallas, in front of frowning Kenesaw, at Peach Tree 
Creek ajid Xew Kope Church his corps under his leadership added to 
its fame. When McPherson was killed Logan a.ssumed temporary com- 
mand of the Army of the Tennessee, and "wrested victory from the 
jaws of defeat. " We of the Cumberland heard the noise of the cannon 
and the rattle of the musketry that told of the severe assaults made by 
the desperate foe on Logan's line. I visited the field the next morning 
and saw the terrible results of the deadly struggle. 

The ground was thickly strewn with the slain, and the face of nature 
had been changed by the conflict as though 

Men liad fought upon the earth and lieiitl^f in upper air. 

Logan's battle presence here is said to have been .sublime. The dial h 
of his beloved comrade in arms seemed to transform hitti into a very 
Moloch. Bare-headed he rode his lines, encouraging his men by word 
and deed, his battle-cry, " McPher.son and revenge. " Sherman's otVi- 
cial report of the l)attle says: 

T)if brave ami fj;^allanl General Logan nobly sustained his reputation ami that 
of liis veteran army and aventred the death of liis comrade and eominander. 

L would fain speak of Ezra Chapel and .Tonesborough, but lack of time 
forbids. 

Ou September 2 the campaign of const;int fighting that began .May "i 
closed by the occupation of Atlanta, and no one man did more to bring 
about the glorious result than he whose death we today deplore. Of 
his services during the march from Savannah through the Carolina.s I 
can not take time to speak. He rode at the head of the victorious 
veterans of the Army of the Tennessee at the Grand Keview. I^ong its 
leader, he had at last become its commander. No more knightly figure 
appeared in th;> marching columns. No braver or truer he;irt swelled 
with the lofty emotions of the hour. 

Through all of General Logan's military career it is e\ideut that he 
was far more than a mere soldier. ,\lthouirh lerribly at home upon Ihe 
field of battle it was not love of the life that took him there. His sen- 
.sitivo and .sympathetic nature caused him many unhappy hours as he 
saw the horrors war had wrought. He was no mere seeker for "the 
bubble reputation." The speeches made and letters written immedi- 
ately before and during the great struggle for national existence show 
him to have been imbued with thespirit of loftiest patriotism. In Con- 
gress he said: 

I have been taught to believe tha'. tlie preservation of this fjloriou.s Union, 
with its t)roa<l flax wavinsr over us as the shield for our protection on land and 
on sea, is paramount to all the parties and platforms that ever have existed, or 
ever can exist. I would to-day, if I had the power, sink sny own party and 
every other one with ail theii- platforms into the vortex of ruin, without heav- 
ing a sigh or shedding a tear, to save the Union. 

LOGAN 2 



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In 1862, when solicited to repre.seut lUiaois as Representative at 
lar^e, he wrote: 

A coinijliiiiice with your recpicst on my part would be a departure Irom the 
sctll.-d ri'sohitions with wliich I resumed my sword in defense and for the per- 
petuity of a Kovernnient, tho like and hlessinj^r-s of wliieh no other nation or age 
shall enjoy if onee HUll'cred to he weakened or destroyed. In making- this re- 
ply I feel that it is unneeessary to enlarge as to what were, are, or may hereafter 
he" my political views, l)ul would simply state that politics of every grade and 
character whatsoever arc now ignored by me, since I am convinced that the 
Constitution and life of this licpublic, which I shall never cease to adore, are in 
danger. 

I e.xpvcss all my viewsin jiolitics when I assert myattachment for the Union. 
I have no other politics now, and consequently no aspirations for civil place or 
power. .Vo! I am to-day a soldier of this Republic, so to remain, changeless 
and immutable, until her last and weakest enemy shall have expired and passed 
away, .\mbitious men who havenot atrue love for theircountry at heart may 
bring forth crude and bootless questions to agitate the pulse of our troubled 
nation and thwart the jireservation of this Union, but of none of such am I. 1 
have entercil the lichl to die if needs he for this Government, and never expect 
to return to peaceful inirsuits until the object of this war has become a fact- 
established. 

While deeply in earnest and desirous of serviui| his country in the 
largest sjihere, it can not be said that he was ambitious. He never 
sought promotion. It came to him as proper recognition of great fit- 
ness and imich service. 

The trait in his character upon which my thoughts dwell with foud- 
neas and cMiiotion was his generous regard for the rights of others. It 
shone out conspicuously in his treatment of that noble soldier and true 
patriot, (ieneral George H. Thomas, whom all men loved. There was- 
impatience that Thomas did not move to the attack of Hood. The 
fact that the rain, wliicli froze as it I'ell, covered the earth with ice upon 
wltich manor beast could scarcely stand was really cause sufficient for 
delay. 

Logan was ordered to supersede the great leader of the Cumberland 
army. He proceeded westward without haste, although the command 
of that splendid army of veterans was sotuethiug greatly to be desired. 
Reaching Louisville and hearing that the thaw had come and Thomas 
ready to move, he delayed iu that city. The glorious news of the great 
victory at Nashville soon came to him. Logan, with the order assign- 
ing him to supremo command in his pocket, telegraphed the glad tiding.s 
to Washington and asked that Thomas might remain at the head of the 
men who had Ibllowed him for so many years, and that he might re- 
turn to the inferior command. 

No desire lor self-advanceinent could prompt him to disregard the 
rights of a comrade. Without a murmur he had before this time seen, 
the command of the Army ofthe Tennessee pa.ss to another when it seemed 
matter of right that it should be his as the natural successor of the la- 
mented Mcpherson. General Hooker, with less of claim, wanted it, 
and in his grievous di.sappointment asked to be relieved from duty. 
Logan did not sulk an instant, but, with unselfish patriotism, went 
wlicrever duty called. 

It is not my purpose to speak of the great dead iu any other capacity 
than that of a soldier. Let others speak of him as a civilian, lawyei", 
legislator, statesman, and tell of his merits as citizen, httsbaud, lather, 
and Iriend. I was his recognized comrade, as was every other man who 
wore the blue. He never forgot them. They will never forget him. 
lie iii;id(; it impossible .so to do by his devotion to the volunteer sol- 
(lier.>" interests. The shitute ijooks are full of laws ibr the maimed 
and di.sabled, the widowed and the latherle.ss, that he either originated 



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or actively helped to pass. His life here and in the other House since 
the war was one of constant devotion to those with wlioni he liad 
served. It was this strong feeling of comradeship that prompted liim 
to aid materially in the organization of that great order — the Grand 
Army of the Eepublic. 

He originated the ever-beautiful Memorial Day and constantly urged 
its observance. It was a revelation to many that this sturdy soldier 
should have conceived the poetic idea that the graves of the Union dead 
should receive their yearly tribute of flowers. The thouglit was born 
of his love for them. There was much that was refined beneath the 
bold, frank exterior. 

The bravest are the tenderest, 

The loving: me the daring. 

A friend who knew him well writes of him: 

His domestic life was an exquisite idyl. It was fragrant with faith and ten- 
derness. It was a poem whose rhythm was never marred. 

Our hearts go out in sympathetic love to-day to the lonely woman 
who was his helpmeet all the days of his manhood life. Her's the deso- 
lation of a great loss, but with it the consolation of a great love. 
■ Peace be with her. 

Mr. HAMPTON. Mr. President, I understand and appreciate fully 
the motives which prompt the tender and touching tributes paid here 
to the memory of our late and distinguished colleague. I sympathize 
with them as honorable alike to the living and to the dead. It is emi- 
nently right and proper that the political associates and the comrades 
in arms of the dead statesman and soldier should bear grateful testi- 
mony to his services and pay homage to his virtues. This is his due; 
it belongs of right to him, and none are more willing to accord this to 
him than those who were his political opponents. For one, I join gladly 
in every mark of respect paid to the memory of General Logan. But, 
sir, in the few remarks which I shall make on this mournful occasion 
which recalls a calamity that has tilled, not only the Senate, but the 
whole country with profound sorrow, I must speak from a standpoint 
diiferent from that occupied by the political friends and the comrades 
of him who has been stricken down in the prime of manhood, and in 
the midst of his usefulness so suddenly and so mysteriously. The 
political school in which my creed was Ibrmed inculcated other doc- 
trines than those held by General Logan, and these necessarily not only 
arrayed me in the ranks of his political opponents, but in those which 
were opposed to the cause he espoused and so bravely upheld in the 
late unhappy civil war. As a Democrat, a Southern man, and a con- 
federate soldier, I am called on to speak of him as a Kepublican in high 
and deserved honor with his party, as a Northern man who offered his 
life and gave his blood to prove the sincerity of his convictions, and as a 
Federal soldier who.se fame was as wide-spread as it was fairly achieved. 

I therefore leave to others better fitted than myself the grateful 
duty of portraying his remarkable military career which placed him 
high in the ranks of successful commanders, and of tracing his no less 
remarkable political career, which led him up to hecome an honored 
and recognized leader of his party. But I may say, in connection with 
his brilliant military service, and it is due to him that I should say it, 
that when war was flagrant, and the passions of men were inflamed to 
their highest pitch, we of the South knew of no act of cruelty, of bar- 



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barity, or of inhumanity to stain his record as a brave and honorable 
soldier. 

I shall speak of him as I knew him here, as a Senator and as a man; 
and wliile we held opposite opiuious on nearly all of the great ques- 
tions which have divided parties in this country, I hope that I may 
be able to speak with impartiality and with truth. His ability com- 
manded my admiration; his many high qualities won my personal re- 
gard, and every leeliug of my heart prompts me to do full justice to 
his merits. My acquaintance with General Logan began upon my en- 
trance into this body, and by a curious coincidence the first utterances 
I heard in this Chamber were from him while he was criticising my ovra 
Suite sharply. His language on that occasion, as may readily be sup- 
posed, was not calculated to inspire me with friendly feelings toward 
him, and it created in my mind a prejudice against him which doubt- 
less warped my judgment to some extent. It was in this condition of 
things that I found myself placed on the Committee on Military Af- 
fairs, of which he was a member, and over which he subsequently pre- 
sided as chairman for years, zealously and efficiently. 

Our service together on that committee was continuous from that 
time until death freed him from earthly labors, and my long associa- 
tion with him there taught me to respect his great ability and to ad- 
mire the many good and generous traits which marked his character so 
strongly. Thoroughly familiar with the Army rules and regulations, 
earnestly desirous of promoting the efficiency of the service, laborious 
and conscientious in the discharge of his duties, devoted to the old 
soldiers, he was fully equipped to till the arduous and responsible posi- 
tion he held. Of ardent temperament and strong will, he was not free 
from the prejudices which always belong to natures such as his was, 
but tliese were rigidly subordinated to his stern sense of justice and of 
honor. And, sir, I can say truthfully that he frequently tempered 
justice by mercj', and I acknowledge gratefully that on many occasions 
the people of the South were the recipients of his kindness. His 
words in the heat and conflict of debate were sometimes bitter, but his 
actvS, inspired by his generous heart, were generally kinder than his 
words. By his acts I prefer to judge his character, and by them my 
estimate of him has been formed. 

The characteristics which gave him such marked individuality as 
chairman of the Military Committee were constantly ilhistrated on the 
floor of the Senate. A strong adherent and supporter of his party, he 
never failed to assert his independence of thought and of action when- 
ever he deemed that his duty demanded this. Frank, learless, and 
outspoken, he professed in an eminent degree the courage which springs 
from sincere convictions, and he had the ability to defend these con- 
victions. While doing this he dealt heavy blows, but they were al- 
ways delivered in an open, straightforward, manly manner. He never 
fought in ambush; he asked only an open field and fair play. Pos- 
sessing as he did so many rare and generous attributes, it is not strange 
that he found warm friends even among his political opponents, nor is 
it surprising that he was a tower of strength to his own party. 

His services, his talents, commanded the position of a leader, and he 
filled that position ably. The ancient Romans, Mr. President, regarded 
courage as among the highest virtues, and the word used by them to 
express this quality has given to our language its beautiful word " vir- 
tue." If the Latin and the English words are synonymous, as they 



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should be, then surely we can ascribe courage and virtue to John A. 
Logan. 

No braver man ever lived, and the Almighty Creator endowed him 
with many other and great virtues. His work on earth is done, and he 
is at rest. 

And from heaven of heavens above 

God speaketh with bateless breath: 
"My angel of perfect love 

Is the angel men call Death ! " 

Mr. ALLISON. Mr. President, whosoever shall hereafter faithfully 
write the annals of our country's history for the last quarter of a cen- 
tury will have occasion to speak often and in words of high pa-aise the 
name of General John A. Logan. 

His death came suddenly and unexpectedly to us all, as but a few 
days before he was in his seat, apparently in his usual health. When 
it came it disclosed not only the warm affection, friendly devotion, and 
high esteem of his associates in this Chamber, but also the firm and 
enduring hold he had upon the affections of his countrymen every- 
where. In public halls and churches and in other places they as- 
sembled to give expression to their grief and sorrow by memorial serv- 
ices and public addresses, recounting the story of his lile. 

This universal manifestation, spontaneous and sincere, did not come 
by chance or accident, but because his long public career rendered him 
worthy of the great honors that were paid to his memory. 

Others have spoken of his early history in Mexico, at the bar, and 
in the State Legislature, all preliminary to larger field, opening up to 
him in the National Congress and upon the great theater of war. He 
first appeared in the National Capitol and took a seat in the House 
of Kepreseutatives, to which he had been elected from the State of Illi- 
nois in December, 1859. He was elected as a Democrtit, and whatever 
part he took in the public discussions of that session was in the line 
pursited by the Democratic party. It is not fitting here and now to 
speak of the momentous qttestions which then agitated the public 
mind and sharply divided political parties. He was thrown into the 
midst of this terrific political conflict which even then threatened the 
country with war. He arrayed himself on the side of the great leader 
of one faction of the Democratic party, and in the Presidential struggle 
of 1860 he espoused the cause of this great leader with all the zeal of 
his strong personality, and in his own State aimed heavy blows at the 
Republican party and the Southern wing of his own. 

That struggle ended in the election of President Lincoln, which was 
soon followed by the opening of a struggle of a very difterent nature. 
This conflict of arms, though long predicted by many, at last came sud- 
denly upon the country without preparation. It has been said that 
"once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide in the 
strife of truth with falsehood lor the good or evil side. ' ' This supreme 
moment came then not only to the country, but to the citizen, what- 
ever his station. General Logan did not hesitate, but at once, with 
his great leader, arrayed himself on the side of his country. So de- 
ciding he immediately resigned his seat in Congress, sttrrendering for 
the time his political ambition, returned to his native State, and with 
all the energy and impetuosity of his nature proclaimed his purpose to 
enter the military service and remain in it until the Union was restored. 
This among his constituents was a cotirageous resolve, as from their 
location and political education they were not easily persuaded to risk 



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all, as he proposed, to save the Union. Such was the force of his char- 
acter- and the jjersiiasiveness of his arj^uiueuts that in a very few days 
he found himself at the head of a rej,'inieut largely composed of his po- 
litical associates and friends. 

Here began that conspicuous military record which four years later 
by common consent placed him foremost among the many eminent 
civilian commanders of that great conflict. 

I shall leave others to speak in detail of his military career, but can 
not refrain from saying that through it all he had the confidence of his 
military superiors as one fitted to command a great army in battle. 
Sherman assigned him to the supreme command on the battlefield of 
Atlanta after Mcl'herson Wiis slain; he justified that confidence by 
le;iding the army to victory. Later on Grant did not hesitate to select 
him as the niau most likely to achieve a victory at Nashville, when he 
was growing restless at the delay of General Thomas. Here as every- 
where he showed the magnanimity andgenerdsityofthetrue soldier by 
not wresting the command from Thomas bn the threshold of a great 
victory. 

He not only held throughout the war the undiminished confidence 
of the great chieftains I have named, but his great qualities as a soldier 
also secured for him the respect, esteem, and confidence of those serving 
under him, which he held firmly and unreservedly to the end; and the 
soldiers who served with him, now grieve because of the loss of a com- 
rade, companion, and friend, and tliey will repeat to their dying day 
around their camp fires recounting the stories of the war, " I tbught 
with Logan at Atlanta," or "'at Jonesborough,"or "at Vicksbnrg. " 

General Logan reappeared in this Capitol as a Representative in 
March, 1867, and from that time until his death, except for a period 
of two years, he was continuously a member either of the House or of 
the Senate. 

His ability as a popular orator and his great military reputation 
gave him prominence at once in the House of Kepresentatives. He 
fully sustained himself in that great impular l)ody Ijy the earnestness 
of his convictions, by his skill as a debater, and l)y his knowledge of 
public afiairs. He soon became one of the recognized leaders in the 
consideration and discussion of the great questions before the House. 
At that time, and by the vote of his a.ssociates in that body, he w;is 
chosen to appear here as one of the managers in behalf of the House to 
conduct the trial of the impeachment of I'resideut Johnson. 

The questions then prominent were questions growing out of the war, 
covering the entire range and scope of the powers of the General Gov- 
ernment, the reorganization of the Army, the management of the pub- 
lic debt, the reduction of taxes, changes in our tariff and internal-reve- 
nue systems, the currency, .specie payments, the new amendments to the 
Constitution, and the restoration of the States deprived of representa- 
tion because of the rebellion. All these questions and many others 
were in a brief space of time forced upon Congress, lor its consideration. 
General Logan liad decided views upon them all, and expres.sed his 
views fearlessly and with great force and power. 

General Logan was transferred to this Chamber in 1871. He was 
then in the full vigor of his matured faculties, and brought with him 
the valuable experience of a long service in the House, and at once 
took high rank in the Senate, which he maintained undiminished to 
the end, always taking an active part in the discussion of the great 
questions constantly appearing here for action. His sympathy with 



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his old comrades and their devotion to his personal fortunes imposed 
upon him unusual labor in caring for their interests and welfare. 

He was assiduous and constant in the advocacy of all the measures 
which he and they deemed of especial interest to tliem, whether re- 
specting pensions, bounty, back pay, or the reorganization of the Army 
itself, and he became their conspicuous advocate and friend. So that 
for all the years Ibllowing the war whatever legishition there is upon 
our statute-books upon these topics bears the impress of his advocacy. 

He was a man of tireless activity and industry in the Senate. The 
Fitz-Johu Porter case is a conspicuous example of tluse cliaracteristics. 
He found time in the midst of the multiplied cares of a seat in this body 
to write an exhaustive history of the causes which led to the conflict 
in which he bore so prominent a part. 

This brief retrospect discloses that the life of General Logan was one 
•of ceaseless activity and exceptional usefulness to his country. 

Few men of this generation in our country have achieved a more il- 
lustrious career. 

Coming into active political life at the beginning of the great civil 
war, he has linked his name imperishably with the military achieve- 
ments that resulted in the restoration of the Union. Coming into the 
councils of the nation soon after the close of hostilities, he bore an hon- 
orable part in the legislation which then seemed necessary lor the per- 
petuation of the Union. 

General Logan was not, in the common acceptance of that phrase, an 
elotfuent man; yet he had extraordinary power as a popular orator. 
There was .something inherent in his character and method and in his 
utterances intensely attractive to large assemblies. Few men in our 
country could attract larger audiences, or hold them more firmly, or 
direct them more certainly to the views he expressed. This character- 
istic was well illustrated in the campaign of 1884, when great multi- 
tudes gathered to hear him, and listened with intense interest to every 
utterance, and were persuaded by his arguments and eloquence. 

Mr. President, thi.s body in its organization is perpetual, and unless 
the Constitution shall be changed will endure as long as the Govern- 
ment remains. It is now the same body it was when organized in 
1789. Its members have the longest fixed term known to the Consti- 
tution except the tenure of the judges of our courts; yet its member- 
ship rapidly changes. When we met in December only six Senators 
appeared in their .seats who were in this Chamber fourteen years ago, 
when I entered it. One of these was General Logan; and of all the 
men who have come and gone in these intervening years, none were 
more conspicuous and none will be more missed by the country and 
by those of us who still remain. 

My service with him began in the other House, in 18()7, and since 
that time we have been a,ssociated together continuously upon important 
committees.. So I had oppjirtuuity to know him well. Like most of 
us, he was not free from faults and peculiarities of disposition; his na- 
ture was sensitive; he was quick to resent an injury, and as quick to 
forgive it. He never knowingly did an injustice to his associates, and 
if he found that he had done so unconsciously, he was swiitand ready 
to make reparation. He was conscientious in the discharge of his pub- 
lic duties. 

In his death the nation has lost one of its ablest counselors, his com- 
rades in the army one of their most ardent and devoted supporters, we 
in this Chamber a valued co-worker and friend. 



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The arduous labors, the conflicts and struggles incident to high pub- 
lic station with him are ended. Those who survive him here will strug- 
gle on lor a few brief years at most, and will then like him be gathered 
to the world beyond, to receive tiie reward which awaits those who per- 
form faithfully and well all their duties here. 

Mr. HAWLEY. Mr. President, a stranger seeing General Logan for 
the first time and observing him in these Halls a i'ew days ago would 
perhaps have said that the most prominent feature of his character was 
his combativeness. He snufted the battle afar off; he never lagged in 
the rear of the column; he crowded to the front; he never shirked the 
combat; he went out to look for it. 

He was quick and strong in his hates and his dislikes. He scorned 
double-dealing and meanness, but I do not think that he hated any- 
body. 

We have seen him in committee and here in this Hall, impetuous, 
trampling down all obstacles to his cause, and perhaps trampling upon 
the leeliugs of his associates. We have seen him then, upon a protest, 
drop the point of his sword instantly, become gentle, quiet, concilia- 
tory, and evidently full of regret that he had even appeared to be un- 
just to any one. 

He had a iuatchless courage, as everybody knows, a courage not only 
upon the battlefield but a high courage and spirit of self-sacrifice in. 
politics. He had a right to suppose from all that was said to him by 
great multitudes, that he was a fair and honorable candidate for the 
Presidency, yet he cheerfully accepted a subonlinate position upon a 
Presidential ticket in 1884 in the belief, in which he was strengthened 
by friends, that his influence and his acquainkmce with tens of thou- 
sands of soldiers would bring something of strength to his political 
party. 

We remember very well the famous Fitz-.Tohn Porter controversy. 
He was well aware in what he was doing there, that he was strength- 
ening old animosities and creating new ones; but you know with what 
a splendid courage he carried himself through, with what power, with 
what indefatigable industry he accumulated his lacts and arguments, 
and renewed the battle again and again. 

I remember with interest that during the controversy over the famous 
anti-Chinese bill he was absent. He returned after a time, and while 
he was under no obligation to say anything, he was opposed to the bill, 
and lest he might be even thought to shirk — no, not thai, but because- 
he desired to be sure in whatever was being done — betook an early occa- 
sion to rise here and manifest his vigorous and determined opposition 
to that measure. He knew well what chances he took then of losing 
political support. 

Not a great while ago there arose here a very painful controversy 
concerning the Senatorial representative from one of our great States. 
He took his ground hrmly; he argued it with all his accustomed vigor 
and energy. He recognized well that he was creating a^ain enemies 
and opponents — yes, more than opponents, bitter enemies — in a great 
State that would be essential to the support of his ambition. 

I remember that General Logan was several times much annoyed 
by a charge that about the time of the breaking out of hostilities, pre- 
vious to it, he had been conctcrned in raising troops for the confederate- 
service. It wius a charge that had not a shadow of truth in it. He 
was a Democrat, of course, before the war, and, as he was in everything 



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else, intensely a Democrat, fierce, combative, bitter sometimes; but as 
the contest drew near the tire of his patriotism blazed up and con- 
sumed like flax all obstacles in his way, and he became, as you have 
learned from some declarations of his made at the time, nothing but a 
defender of the Union. And not only as a soldier, for he carried with 
him politically the people of Southern Illinois, many of whom in their 
political prejudices and convictions were as completely Southerners as 
the people of Alabama. He swept them along with him by the power 
and tierce energy of his oratory. 

He went into the war. After Vicksburg General Grant said that 
McPher.son and Logan had demonstrated their fitness to become the com- 
manders of independent armies. He had a right to suppose, after the 
gallant McPherson had fallen, under the very feet of an advancing and 
temporarily triumphant confederate force, he had a fair right to suppose 
that he would succeed to that officer's command. He was second in 
rank. The .soldiers desired it. They had seen his great leadership on 
that battlefield as on many others. Another took the place, an hon- 
orable and gallant soldier. 

The manly generosity and high courtesy of his bearing when he was 
ordered to relieve the noble General Thomas have been described to- 
day. I do not contrast General Logan's action on that occasion with 
the conduct of certain others in similar situations, though there were 
examples of wonderful contrast; but he was as obedient as a child, 
faithful as ever. His complaints were probably uttered, for he could 
not disguise himself, but they are not upon record. 

He labored under the reproach that he was something of a political 
soldier in those days, but he did not then disclose the fact that he had 
received a suggestion he could not disregard, that he should go to Illi- 
nois, another battlefield as important as the battlefield of Atlanta. 

He came to be the eminent figure among the volunteer soldiers. It 
is so recorded ; it will be so remembered in history. There is no sol- 
dier of the old Array, the most captious or the most jealous, who re- 
grets or carps at any of the great honors paid to Logan; for whatever is 
said of Logan as the chief of volunteers is claimed to be the common 
glory of them all. 

I heard (General Grant say once of him in private conversation that 
he was uneasy in camp but all right when he charged. He sulked in 
his tent, but it was because it was a tent. When the bugle called him 
to the saddle he was exultant, happy. 

He was classed as a political general. I do not know that it was al- 
together an unfriendly remark. He was, sir; he had the honor to be a 
political general. It was a political war, and he was as strong in one 
field of battle as theother; the political generals did double duty. The 
anxiety during some of the great days of those four years was not that 
the soldiers of the Union would be unable to put down the rebellion in 
due time, but that the voters at the ballot-box might put down the war 
too early; and some of the political combats won by Logan and others 
at home were as useful to the cause of the Union as the triumphs of 
Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Baker, matchless as an orator, chivalrous 
and lovely in battle, was a political general. Garfield, giving promise 
of great generalship by an unconquerable industry and energy and a 
brilliant courage in the face of the enemy's guns — Garfield, obeying 
what was almost a command, went from the army to Congress. Frank 
Blair, with the trumpet tones of his voice and the quiver of his up- 



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lifted firiKer, was worth a corps of soldiers in his influence over Mis- 
souri, and he was a political general. 

Scanilal spared General Logan from its insinuations of dishonor in 
private or public life. Perhaps calumnious mud was thrown at him, 
but nothing of it is recorded or even retained in the memories of men. 

He loved his country. Why, sir, that is true of sixty millions of 
people, I hope; but he loved it with a devotion immeasurable and un- 
fathomable. He believed in the justice, the equality, and the liberty 
of its Constitution and its laws. He had no doubt whatever of the 
wisdom of this great experiment, universal suffrage and all. He was 
no agnostic; he had a creed and a purpose always, in every contest. 
He did not assume all knowledge; but what he knew, he knew he 
knew; and what he believed he was always ready to say. Whatever 
he wanted, he greatly wanted; he was very much in earnest. He 
trusted the great jury of twelve million voters and had no doubt about 
the future prosperity, honor, and glory of the great Republic. 

He was an ambitious man, politically; he had a right to be, and he 
won a high place. He was ambitious of a great place among soldiers, 
and he won it. 

He was generous, he was frank, he was tender. Possibly that will 
sound strangely to many people who did not know him as we did. He 
bad as tender a heart as entered these doors. He was one of the bravest 
men physically and morally that ever lived. He was a brilliant and 
great volunteer soldier. He was an incorruptible citizen and legis- 
lator. His patriotism was unsurpassed in enthusiasm, intensity, and 
faith. 

Mr. SPOONER. Mr. President, the busy hand of death beckons us 
again to the side of a new-made grave. Amid the tears and sobs of 
this great people, to the music of muffled drums, and under the furled 
flag which he loved, we tenderly bore John A. Logan to his rest. 

It was to be expected that the words of tribute spoken in this Cham- 
ber, still so tilled with his presence, would come Iresh and strong from 
warm hearts, for his wonderful career was of our own day and genera- 
tion, and we were his colleagues and friends. 

But, sir, no one need fear for Logan the cold analysis of the historian 
yet to come. How little dependent is this man's fame upon the speech 
of his contemporaries. It rests upon the solid foundation of glorious 
deeds and splendid public service. We may well say that he was born 
for the service of the people, for the active years of his whole life, with 
hardly an intermission, were spent in the discharge of public duty. 
That life was an open book, read and known of all men, and biographi- 
cal details of it are for my purpose, quite unnecessary. It is said that 
"history is the essence of innumerable biographies." Logan's life is of 
the essence of our history. 

With him love of country was a passion, and with him the union of the 
States was "the country." He could see, save through the perpetuity 
of that Union, notliin<; of any worth in the future of the Republic. 

Of strong convictions and prejudices, a stern partisan, reared among 
thase whose predelictions and views of constitutional right were dis- 
tinctively of the Houtheru school, the friend and trusted lieutenant' of 
Douglas, it will stand forever to the credit of his clearness of mental 
vision and of bis independence of character, that when the war cloud 
wliicli had been so lonir gathering, broke in fury upon the country, he 
straightway took his rightful place by the side of Abraham Lincoln, 



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under the beautiful flajr, which, at the threshold of his mauhood, he 
had followed upon the plains of Mexico. 

His star shotiuto the sky at Belmont, to shine hxed and unobscured 
forever. 

It would be idle for me to recount the battles which he foufi;ht and 
won, the precipitous charj^es which he led, tlie marvelous personal 
magnetism and daring wliich, communicating itself to a whole army, 
turned, as by the will power of one man, defeat into victory. It is 
enough to say of him as a soldier that by common consent he stands 
forth the ideal volunteer soldier of the war. He was, among a million 
brave men, original, pictures^lu^!, and uni(|ue. There was but one John 
A. Logan. Whata pitilul combination ol lolly and malignity was that 
which thrust at such a one the charge of disloyalty! 

The world loves, and easily remembers, the soldier. Tales of the 
bivouac, the siege and the chaige, of personal daring on the field ot 
battle, have had peculiar (a>cination for men in every age, and doubt- 
less Logan's chief renown will be as a soldier. He would have it so. 

But, great as he was in war, he was great also as an orator of the 
people, and in the councils of peace. He won as an orator a reputation 
which, if he had no other claim to be remembered, would keep his 
name alive and would satisfy any reasonable ambition. His popularity 
as a speaker was not ephemeral, nor wa.s it peculiar to any section. He 
was everywhere welcome. Listening thousands hung in rnpt interest 
upon his words. It is not at all dilBcult to account for his power as a 
speaker. His evident sincerity and earnestness, his commanding pres- 
ence, the flash of his eye, the like of which I never saw in any other 
face, the boldness of his irtferance, the impetuous flow of his speech, 
and the trumpet tones of his voice, gave to him as a poytular orator a 
charm indescribable. No man could catch more (|uickly than he the 
spirit of his audience, or more deftly adapt himself to its iancy. 

The law of his life was action. He could not rest. It is said of him 
that as a .soldier he was chaling and unhappy unless the army was in 
motion and the battle near at hand. This characteristic was quite as 
marked in civil life. 

He was a student and a worker, and as the years went on he grew 
in mental strength and stature and in oratorical power. 

As the nominee of his party for the .second great office in the gift of 
the people, he added greatly to his civic fame. The dignity of his bear- 
ing, the method and manner of his thought and speech, were every- 
where a revelation to those who then heard him for the first time. 
Other orators have been more finished, but, sir, it is not the language 
of fulsome eulogy to say that, taking ,Iohn A. Logan all in all, he was 
a great orator, and will be known as such. 

He possessed, also, indisputable claims to high statesmanship. Look 
through the statutes and the records of Congress, and you will find there 
the strong impress of his character and individuality. Many acts of 
great public consequence he devised and draugiited. As a legislator, 
he was broad-minded and fearless. Neither the love of commendation 
nor the fear of criticism swerved him in the least from the path blazed 
out by his convictions. He was ready in debate and a dangerous antag- 
onist on the floor of the Senate. 

One cannot fail to notice, looking through the record of his work in 
the national Senate, everywhere the evidence of service rendered to 
the soldier, and to the soldier's widow and orphan. Every thought 



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that loving comradeship and appreciation of great service and sacrifice 
could suggest lor the soldier's good, you will lind at some time formu- 
lated into statute by his faithful hand. He took it upon him as a 
sacred trust that he should look always to the interest of those who 
with him had stood in the shock of battle. Well may the surviving 
soldiers of the Kedenil Army— now, alas, fast falling by the wayside— 
as they gather around their camp-tires, weep bitter tears for the loss of 
Logan. 

Though a chieftain of his party, he was not narrow or sectional as a 
legislator. He met more than half way those who had but lately been 
his adversaries on the field of battle. No man more desired the restora- 
tion of perfect harmony between the sections and the upbuilding of the 
waste places of the South or gave readier aid to that great consumma- 
tion. He demanded only in return that every man and woman and 
child, of whatever condition, class, or degree, should enjoy unobstructed 
and in the fullest measure, every right given by the Constitution and 
the laws. With less than this he thought it moral treason to be content. 

Logan was a leader by divine right. A.11 the elements combined to 
make him such. Of resistless energy, iron will, knightly daring, lofty- 
moral courage, quick and acute intelligence, fervent patriotism, unself- 
ish loyalty to principle and friendship, aud unswerving honor, it is im- 
possible to conceive of him as other than a great leader in any field of 
human eflbrt. Scan his eventful life however critically, study the 
forces which moved him, analyze the characteristics which marked him 
from his fellows, and you find little indeed of accident or adventitious 
aid in the achievements which will glorify his name. It is no marvel 
that he was a great soldier, or that he was an orator of high repute, or 
that he was conspicuous among the leading statesmen of his day, but 
that he united in himself all of these is conclusive of his genius. 

He was, with all his rugged strength of will and bravery and forti- 
tude, a sensitive man, easily wounded by a personal or party friend. 
In the retrospect we see now, with unavailing regret, how keenly he 
may have suffered in spirit i'rom what gave us little thought or con- 
cern. Quick to resent what seemed to him a wrong, he was, like all 
great natures, as quick to forgive and forget. He was magnanimous. 
No manly man found it difficult to repair, without loss of self-respect, 
a quarrel with John A. Logan. 

He was, in many ways, a proud man. He carried for a quarter of a 
century upon his body, wounds received in battle. He bore, without 
complaint, racking pains, born of the privations of the soldier's life, of 
the pelting storm, the comfortless bed upon the frozen earth, the cold, 
wearisome march, the sleepless nights and toilsome days. Standingin 
his place on the 16th of March last, he said: 

I could say — but I dislike to mention myself— that I was entitled to a pension 
early in the war, and have been ever since the war, but I have never asked for 
it, and never expect to. 

Mr. President, we now know that there were times in his later 
years when the days were dark, aijd when the stress of financial em- 
barrassment pressed him hard, but he was too proud and delicate to 
claim the pension which was his due under the laws which he had 
been so jwtential in fashioning and in enacting. I hope if the words I 
am about to utter are a sin against the proprieties of this occasion that 
I shall be forgiven; but I do not doubt that as he stood there, announc- 
ing to the Senate and to the country his right to a pension, he had 



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abiding faith that should he, in the provideuce of God, be first called, 
the people whom he had served so lou« and so well, would pay, not 
giudgingly, but as in cheerful payment of a debt of honor, to the 
womanly woman who in all the years of his growth had kept pace 
with him, who had ))een his love, his pride, his companion, that which 
was his due, but which he had Ibrhorne to claim. 

.That is not a full trii)utetothe memory of John A. Logan which takes 
no thought of her whose life has been a part of his life and whose fame 
is linked inseparably with his fame. What tenderer, sweeter tribute 
can the American people pay to his memory, than to place above the 
calamitous vicissitudes of life, the woman who was ever by his side, 
not alone in the hour of triumph but in the hour of pain and sufier- 
ing; not alone in this beautiful capital city, but in the rude hospital on 
the banks of the distant Western river where he lay wounded nigh 
unto death? 

He died in the service of his country, and we know from him — for he 
"being dead, yet speaketh "—that his strength and vigor wece sapped 
and mined by the jirivations and the wounds of war. 
How difficult it is to think of him as dead ! 

Can that man be dead 
Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind? 
He lives in glory; and his speaking dust 
Has more of life than half its breathing moulds. 

He will live, sir, in the hearts of men until the history of his time shall 
have faded utterly away. With each returning May, wherever there is 
a soldier's grave — and where is there not a soldier's grave? — the people 
now living and those to come after us will remember the name of Logan, 
the patriot, soldier, orator, and statesman, and will bring, in honor of 
his memory, the beautiful flowers of the springtime and the sweet in- 
cense of praise and prayer. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Mr. President, with profound sorrow and deep 
grief I join in paying the last official tribute of respect, honor, friend- 
ship, and love to the memory of our late distinguished colleague, John 
Alexander Logan. 

For the first time, in ]\Larch, 1875, I had the pleasure and honor of 
his personal acquaintance in this Chamber. 

For the succeeding two years, and then from March 4, 1879, to the 
day of his death, I was a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, 
of which he was the honored chairman. Oar official and personal re- 
lations at once became, and uninterruptedly continued, most intimate, 
cordial, and friendly. However widely we may have differed upon 
many questions, I respected, admired, honored, and loved him for his 
many noble, manly, generous, magnanimous, and chivalrous qualities 
of head and heart — the distinguishing attributes of the true soldier and 
great man among all nations and tongues. 

It was my sad privilege on December 26, 1886, at 2.55 p. m., to stand 
at the foot of his bed, and, powerless for relief, to see him quietly, 
peacefully, and unconsciously breathe the last breath of his life on 
earth. 

His deathless soul, freed from its earthly body, racked, tortured, and 
paralyzed by disease and pain, triumphantly pas.sed through the mys- 
tic vail intervening between the grievous afflictions and bereavements 
of earth and the fullness of joy in the presence and the everlasting 
pleasures at the right hand of our Heavenly Father, and entered upon 



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its glorious unending life upon the beautiful shores of the "bright for- 
ever," far, lar beyond the touch of disease, suffering, or death. 

Now beyond the reach of fulsome praise or eloquent panegyric, we 
can calmly consider his life, and prolit therefrom. 

About the year 1823 Dr. John Logan emigrated from Ireland and 
located in Jackson County, Illinois, and there married Miss Elizabeth 
Jenkins. Of this union .lohn Alexander Logan was the first born, 
February 9, 1826, and inherited a robust physical constitution and vig- 
orous mind, the richest inheritance bequeathed by parents to children. 

In that section of the then West educational advantages were very 
limited, and young Logan was taught at home, and attended the com- 
mon schools of the neighborhood as opportunity offered, and a neigh- 
boring academy; and by industry, perseverance, and self-reliance ob- 
tained a fair education. 

We see him a young man about twenty years old in his native county, 
without wealth, family distinction, or inlluential friends to aid him, 
having only the future and its possibilities before him to inspire and 
nerve him lor the battles of life, the architect of his own fortune, free 
to plan and execute as he would and could. With honesty, determina- 
tion, and self-reliance he boldly moved forward, conscious that "life 
gives nothing to mortals without great labor. ' ' He enlisted as a private 
soldier in the First Illinois liegiraeut for service in the war with 
Mexico, and became a lieutenant, acting adjutant, and quartermaster, 
faithfully dischartjing his duties. 

Upon the conclusion of peace he returned home with a broader view 
of lile and laudably increased ambition, and began the study of law in 
the office of his uncle — Hon. A. M. Jenkins — and in 1849 was elected 
clerk of the county courtof his native county; served as such about one 
year, then resigned and attended the law school of Louisville Univer- 
sity, and graduated therefrom in 1851. 

Keturning home, he entered upon the practice of law with his uncle, 
and was elected to the Legislature of Illinois in 1852-'53-'56 and '57, 
and to the office of prosecuting attorney for the third judicial district 
in 1853. 

In 1855 he was married to Miss Mary Cunningham, a most happy and 
fortunate union. In 1856 he was Presidential elector, and cast his vote 
for Buchanan and Breckinridge. In 1858 he was elected a Representative 
in the Thirty-sixth Congress, and in I860 was re-elected to the Thirty- 
seventh Congress, and served his term in the Thirty-sixth Congress 
from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1861, and entered upon his terra in 
the Thirty-seventh Congress, and attended the called session in 1861. 
While attending that session he shouldered his musket as a private sol- 
dier in the Second Michigan Volunteers, and marched to and partici- 
pated in the battle of Bull Run. He then resigned his seat in the 
Thirty-seventh Congress, entered the Union Army, raised and was 
appointed colonel of the Thirty-first Regiment Illinois Infantry August 
16, I8t>l, marched to the front in the field, and there continued. 

He was promoted to be brigadier-general in March, 1862, and then 
major-general, and commanded succesively a regiment, brigade, divis- 
ion, an army corps, and the Army of the Tennessee. On August 17, 
1865, after full four years' service, he resigned his commission as major- 
general, and was honorably mustered out. He was then appointed by 
Pre^sident Johnson minister to Mexico, and resigned. 

Returning to the walks of civil life he resumed the practice of law 
in his native Illinois. In 1866 he was elected a Representative at 



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lai-fjie from Illiuois to the Fortieth Congress, and re-elected to the Forty- 
first Congress, serving Ironi March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1871, and was 
electexl to the Senate of the United States lor the term lieginniiig Maich 
4, 1871; and was again elected to tiie Senate lor the term lieginning 
March 4, 1879, and re-elected for the succeeding term from March 4, 
1885, to March 3, 18!)1. 

In 1884 he was the nominee of the National Republican party for 
Vice-President. 

This bird's-eye view of his life-record and services is .just sufficiently 
distinct and full to enable us to form correct impressions of this great 
man — our lamented colleague in this Chamber. In all these varied 
positions of trust and honor he was, and proved himself to be, honest, 
determined, self-reliant, liiithful, and efficient, and the worthy recipient 
of the friendship and confidence of the people. 

For the length of time devoted to his profession he was a good law- 
yer. 

Among all the many great and distinguished volunteer officers dur- 
ing the late war it is no disi>aragement of any of them to say that 
General Logan was the greatest and most distinguished. Courageous, 
fearless, energetic, untiring, generous, and dashing, he was the beau- 
ideal of the American volunteer soldiery. For four long, weary years, 
during the greatest military confiict the world has ever beheld. Gen- 
eral Logan, as a private soldier, a commander of a regiment, then of a 
brigade, then of a division, then of an army corps, and then of an army, 
met and satisfied the highest expectations and demands of the admin- 
istration, the country, and the people. No man could do more. As a 
Eepresentative and Senator in the Congress of the United States he was 
incorruptible, faithful, diligent, and laborious, and was earnest in his 
convictions and forcible and aggressive in their advocacy. 

His repeated re-elections to both the House and Senate by the same 
constituency attested their continued friendship and confidence, and 
their approbation of his character and services. In his personal inter- 
course he was manly, generous, candid, and sincere. 

As a husband and father he was devoted, faithful, tender, loving, 
and warmly appreciative of the boundless love and undying devotion 
of his noble wife and dutiful children. As a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church he was "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for 
it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." 

The name, the fame, the life, and the illustrious and successful 
achievements of General Logan are now the common heritage of our 
great country and people, and will be cherished and remembered by the 
present and coming generations. 

Many poor, worthy, and honorably ambitious young men, just en- 
tering the arena of active life, faint, weary, and despondent, will re- 
member the great disadvantages surrounding General Logan when at 
their age, and then his subsequent illustrious and successful life, at- 
tained by his honesty, perseverance, and self-reliance, and made possi- 
ble to all by our unequal ed systems of government — the best ever yet 
devised by the wisdom of sages or attained by the blood of heroes — and 
will take fresh courage and worthily imitate the illustrious pattern, 
and make themselves a blessing and honor to country and people. 

The life and achievements of Logan, cast upon the bosom of the pub- 
lic life in the United States, have started waves of influence and power 
for good which will widen and extend until they break against the 
shores of eternity in the resurrection morning. 



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Mr. FRYE. Mr. President, Senators have brought to-day, and will 
bring, garlands and wreaths with which to decorate the grave of our 
dead soldier and Senator. I shall content myself with ofl'ering a single 
flower. 

Logan was an honest man. I do not mean by that simply that he 
would not steal, that he would not bear false witness, that he had not 
an itching palm for a bribe. If this were all, he would not be unlike 
every man I have been associated with in both Houses of Congress 
during a sixteen years' service, nor essentially diflerent, in my opin- 
ion, from a large majority of his fellow-citizens. 

Sir, the press very generally aud occasionally an eulogist to-day, in 
assigning to General Logan this admirable quality of character, have 
contracted and dwarfed it, have seemed to make money its measure, 
by producing as evidence in its support the fact that he had served 
long in public life and died poor. The Senator from Missouri has just 
said that he was poor, that he was incorruptible. I trust, sir, that 
the same honesty and incorruptibility may truthfully be ascribed to 
every Senator within the sound of my voice, to every member of the 
two Houses. Is there any necessary connection between honesty and 
poverty? Is the one the logical sequence of the other ? Are dishon- 
esty and wealth in copartnership ? I have been taught to believe, and 
do believe, that honesty is the broadest, safest, and surest pathway to 
prosperity. 

I do not regard it as eulogistic of this great man to say that he was 
honest in that narrow sense. I do not cripple my declaration by any 
such limitation, nor sustain it by any such questionable testimony. I 
mean that General Logan had an honest mind, an honest purpo.se, au 
honest habit of thinking. I mean that he never played tricks with his 
mental machinery to serve his own ends and his own purposes. I mean 
that lie never attempted jugglery with it. I mean that he permitted 
it, in spite of his anihitious, his prejudices, his jealousies, and his pas- 
sions, to move straight forward in its operations; and that the legiti- 
mate results were convictions — convictions lollowed always by earnest, 
determined, inten.se action. In my opinion that largely constituted 
General Logan's strength in the Senate, in the Army, and with the 
people. 

Let me illustrate by a few brief incidents of his life. He was living 
in Southern Illinois, where there was little if any anti-slavery senti- 
ment, at a time when slavery was never more tirmly established by 
enactment of law and judicial decision, at the time when it was arro- 
gant and aggressive in its demands. Yet Logan stemmed the current, 
disregarded his own apparent self-interest, and resisted the demands. 
He was associated with a party whose shibboleth was State rights, 
whose overshadowing fear was centralization of power in the National 
Government; aud when that doctrine culminated in secession he 
dropped it at once foreser aud tendered his sword so to the threatened 
and imperiled Republic. 

War came on. He believed that war was a serious fact ; that it was 
to be waged for the suppression of rebellion and the restoration of the 
Union. Hence in every council of war his voice was always for battle, 
and in every battle he was ever at the front. 

Some of the prominent otBcers were for temporizing, were studying 
political enigmas, were nursing Presidential aspirations, were casting 
obstacles in the way of supposed rivals. Logan never swerved to the 



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rifilit nor to the left, but pressed ever straijicht forward to the goal of 
ultimate vietorj. 

When in the midst of the war preferment was otfered him, aye, 
more, urged upon him by his Iriend.s, he did not hesitate a moment, 
but with emphasis deelarcd to them that he had enlisted for the war, 
and that. God hel|)inji him, he would fiiilil it out on that line to the 
end. When he was superseded, as he ])elievi;d unjustly, as has been well 
said to-day, he did not sulk in his tent a sini^le hcnir, but marched 
straight forward in the line of duty. 

When the war was t)ver, the Union was restored and i)eace w;vs en- 
throned, and a grateful people showered upon him public honors he 
exhibited everywhere the same characteristics. Take the case which 
has been alluded to here to-day of General Porter. Logan lielieved, 
wliether Justly or unjustly is not for ineuow to say, that this man was 
jealous of his superiors, that criticisms and cumidaiuts subversive of 
discipline were nuide by him, that he neglected plain and open duty, 
that he refused to obey peremptory orders, and that his puui-shnieut 
was just. In this Chamber we listened to his matchless, marvelou.s, 
powerful, convincing speech against hi.s restoration; and when his great 
captain, with a voice infinitely more iiowerl'ul with this soldier hero 
than the glittering bribes of gold or of fame, called him to a halt he did 
not he-sitate a moment, but with renewed vigor, with redoubled power, 
urged his convictions upon the Senate. 

We all remember perfectly well that Logan knew his comrades 
saved the Republic, and in season and, as many thought, out of season 
he was ready to propose and to advocate any measure lor their relief 
that commended itself to his judgment, not taking for a moment into 
account any public sentiment that might be hostile. 

When his great commander was Ibra third time ur<ied by his friends 
for the candidate by the Republican party for the office of President, 
and it was apparent to all thinking men that it was to be a struggle 
fierce, full of intense bitterness, Logan went to the front in that h,!j;ht 
utterl}- regardless of any effect that it might have upon his own i^oliti- 
cal fortunes. 

I have seen within a few days ago an item floating in the press that 
in that ever to be remembered convention, when it was apjjarent that 
]\Ir. Blaine could not be nominated. Senators HALli and Fkye visited 
General Logan and tendered to him the support of their friends for the 
nomination if he would accept the candidacy. Of course it was a 
myth. Senators Halk and Fkye both knew John A. Logan, and had 
known him for years, and even if they had been vested with the au- 
thority, which they were not, they never woirld have dreamed of un- 
dertaking to bribe him from his allegiance. They knew that no grati- 
fication of personal ambition (and it is the greatest temptation to a 
man on earth) would move him from his allegiance to (irant in that 
tight any more than a summer breeze would stir a mountain from its 
base. 

Sir, when subsequently Logan himself justly had aspirations for the 
same nomination I sat here in this seat by the side of that which now 
is empty a curious observer, and I dare assert that I never saw him 
trim his sail in the slightest. I never could perceive that the fact made 
any change in his thought or word or vote. 

About that time the Republican national committee met here in 
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Wasliington to determine upon the time of holding the convention and 
to settle upon the hasis ot representation. Logan was present. A 
delegate from one of the Territories raised the question ahout Terri- 
torial representation, and insisted that his Territory must have three 
delegates in that convention, and that it was the duty of that commit- 
tee to increase the representation of the Territories generally. As he 
was closing his speech he turned to Logan and significantly said, "Can- 
didates for the Presidency h;id better take notice." Logaji sprang to 
hifi feet in the twinkling of an eye and boldly denounced the whole 
system of Territorial repiesentatiou in national conventions as unjusti- 
fiable, ittterly oldivious of the iiict that perhaps he was hazarding tliat 
marvelous prize ior which he was then coutendiug. 

Mr. President, there is not a Senator within the sound of my voic;e, 
and there are .Senators here who have served in the councils of the nation 
many years with John A. Logau, who ever knew him to hesitate or 
waver "in or shrink from any expression of opinion as to any subicct 
under consideration, who ever knew him to avoid a vote, who ever sus- 
pected him of taking any account whatsoever of what effect his words 
or his acts would have upon his own personal or political fortunes. 
There is not a Senator within the sound of my voice who, when Logan 
had expressed his opinions, the result of his convictions, ever dreamed 
that he was not entirely, faultlessly sincere in the expression. 

Mr. President, Logan was a fearlessly honest man. May our dear 
Lord give him a blessed rest and a glorious irumortality. [Manifesta- 
tions of applause in the galleries.] 

Mr. PLUMB. Mr. President, it is one of the chief excellencies of 
onr institutions that no man, however exalted in station, great in in- 
tellect, or rich in graces of character, is indispensable to their security, 
growth, and permanence. Where rank comes by inheritance, and the 
essence as well as the symbols of authority is transmitted from gen- 
eration to generation, a single life often stands as the only barrier 
against threatened revolution or anarchy. 

How different here ! Great characters, in whom center the affections 
of the people and the forces of the state, pass trom the current speech 
of men into the repose of history, while the state itself, dominated by 
the popular will and secure in the popular affection, gives no pause to 
its beneficent progress nor relaxes the least of its necessary iunctious. 

Garfield — himself destined to succeed to the station as well as the 
martyrdom of Lincoln — upon the assassination of his immortal prede- 
cessor, gave utterance to a sentiment as significant as it was eloc|nent: 
"The President is dead; but, thank God, the Government at Washing- 
ton still lives." 

This consideration by no means implies inadequate appreciation of 
the illustrious men who have gone from among us. It is rather an 
added tribute to them that the Government had received no detriment 
at their hands, but had been so strengthened by their patriotic solici- 
tude, shared by the great average of their fellow-citizens, that it was 
made capable of passing unharmed through the severest crises. 

We do not honor Lincoln less because when his unrivaled authority 
was paralyzed by death the good ship of state under other control and 
guided by Providence passed safely through the perils of the time into 
the serene anchorage of restored peace and prosperity. Grant, the great- 
est hero in our military annals, breathed out his life amid the mount- 



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aiu pines, ami the tuderly pru>^ress of tlic <;i-eat affairs of state, over 
which he had so IhithluUy ijiisitled, was only temporarily suspended 
by the universality of public and private sorrow. 

Lof^an has* gone from anion;; us to return no more. Another sits in 
his place. The burden and rosponsil)ilities which he bore so well and 
discharged with .so much accejitance have fallen upon other shouldtirs. 
The Senate, permanent in its organization, and renewed Irom time to 
time, continues its round of duties, sustained against shock and dis- 
aster. 

Yet Logan will not be forgotten. No individual, no association ol 
men is proof against the salutary teachings of example. Others among 
us may have excelled our dead friend in many of the qualities which 
are combined in true statesmanship, but who will deny to him those 
rare gifts and virtues which make their possessor conspicuous any- 
where ? 

His zeal was restle.ss, his energy intense, his industry tireless, his 
intellect clear and incisive, his courage unshaken in any and every cir- 
cumstance, his loyalty to truth and duty undoubted, and his fidelity 
to friendships, in these days of self-seeking, almost phenomenal. Al- 
ways impetuous, sometimes impatient in controversy', his nature was 
ardent without rancor, and in private and social liie he was sunny 
and persuasive. 

General Logan's speech wa , vigorous and forceful. He subordinated 
the graces of rhetoric to the logical results sought to be compassed. 
The pith and marrow of his discourse was seldom embellished by (anci- 
ful allusions or poetic imagery. His weapons of debate comported with 
his rugged, practical nature, and challenged the judgment rather than 
the fancy and the imagination. Beyond all and above all his candor 
and sincerity were so evident that no one ventured to question them. 

He was a zealous friend and a sturdy opponent. His blows were de- 
livered in honorable fashion, aud those he received in like manly con- 
troversy were accepted in a chivalrous .spirit. 

It was the crowning felicity of his association with us that, as the 
most conspicuous of our volunteer soldiery during the war of the re- 
bellion, he became the special champion of the interestsof not only his 
immediate comrades in the field, but of all who had helped to bear the 
flag of the Union through trials aud discouragements to final victory. 
With what lidelity and energy this sacred trust was discharged the 
Senate and the country alike ticar witness. 

It is given to but few to ,so hapjiily unite in their own experience 
heroic martial achievements with eminent civic successes. Yet he bore 
his accumulateil honors mildly, aud delighted more in the calm content 
of his home and fireside than in the loud acclaim of men. It will be 
one of the most gratelul renrembrauces of him who has gone that what 
he became he owed to his own exertions. No man of his time more 
strikingly illustrated the beneficence of a Government which, looking 
for its support aud maintenance to people of all conditions, pursuits, 
and beliefs, offers its honors audits trusts to the competition of all. 

Logan fought his own way, won his own victories, made his own 
fame secure. 

Scrutinizing the li.st of those who, emerging from comparative ob- 
scurity, have contributed the noblest .service to the Republic and made 
themselves a record for immortality, the name of Logan will be found 
written not far below those of Lincolu and of Grant. 



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Mr. EVARTS. We are collected here to-day, Mr. President, neither 
to bury nor to praise the soldier and Senator whose life in its full lus- 
ter and at its zenith was so lateiy eclipsed before our eyes. by the im- 
penetrable vtil of death. Not to bury him, for his obsequies have been 
celebrated with all the observance t hat admiration of his career, applause 
for his conduct, reverence Jbr his love and labors for his country, and 
affection for those humble, common traits that atfect as with a touch 
of kin all who love the character in the home w Iiich this our Iriend niaa- 
ifested in all his life. Not to praise him, lor we do not need to display, 
and we have no power to enhance, his lame. 

It is that we and the communities that we may speak for are to asso- 
ciate ourselves and them in this hour to recall our enforcement of his 
relation to the public life of this country, the benefits that he has C'>n- 
ferred, and the power he is yet to exert over them in the future. 

It can not, L believe, be doubted that atevery stage of General Logan's 
life he was a capital figure in his own share of public power and infiu- 
ence and in the recognized estimate of his countrymen of that .posi- 
tion. 

If in the first few months of the opening struggle, after he had taken 
his position in animating, arousing, coufirming the movement of this 
people to sustain the Government, if in the first battle bullets had taken 
away his life, Logan would have been a capital figure in the memory of 
that gieat scerie and on that great theater. If in his military career, 
commemorated and insisted upon so well, at any pause in his advance 
he had fallen in this battle or that battle, he would have been a capital 
figure in that .scene and on that theater. And if at the end of the war, 
when tiie roll was made up of the heroes, and he then had not moved 
before this great people in any subsequent career, the angel of death 
had then taken away his life, he would have been a capital figure in 
the whole honor of that war. 

And, Mr. Tresident, in the great civic labors and dangers that at- 
tended the rearrangement of our political and social condition in this 
country cousecjuent upon the war, if that share and if that part of his 
career had been the only one to be commemorated, he would have been 
a capital figure in that. But when these strifes were composed and the 
country was knit together in allegiance and loyalty to the Government 
he loved and served, he thenceforward in this Chamber had presented 
for the record of his life only what should have been manifested and 
known and observed here, he would have been a capital figure in that 
single scene and theater. 

We therefore must agree in what in his lifetime and so recently now 
after his death meets a univeisal concurrence, that he was of the citi- 
zen soldiers of this great nation the greatest, and that of that class of 
citizen soldiers that were numbered among statesmen he was the great- 
est of statesmen, and we must confess that on this larger area he still 
remains a capiial figure which could be missed from no narrative of any 
portion of the story of his life. 

Mr. President, it has been said by a profound political philosopher 
applied to a condition of political life not far different from our own, 
that by whatever path great places are to be gained in public life in the 
ojunion and sujjport of the community, that path will be .sought. If 
it is an honorable [)ath, if it be of uprightness and openness andstraight- 
ibrwardness ui' conduct and of character that these high places are to 
be gained, then that path will be trod. And what better encomium 
upon his own jiath, what more creditable to our people's estimate and 



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their own approval upon this or that path in public life, than thatGen- 
eral Loj^an liy the path tliat lie piirsiu-tl, never in ambush, never in 
devious paths, never agitated about his own reputation, and never de- 
faming tiiat of others, led on in a pith that brought him up to the 
highest distinction and has left him this capital liyiue iu the memory 
of all his countrymen. 

In every form of popular inllucnce on the largest scale, near to the 
topmost of the culminating crown of a people's j;lory to the fame of one 
of their citizens, he was before us in the most recent contest for the 
Presidency. He, at the moment that he died, was held, in the judgment 
of his countrymen, among the very foremost tor the Ihturc contest. 
.\nd this illustration of his distinction know.s no detraction, no dispar- 
agement, no flaw touching the very heart and manhood of his life and 
character. 

Let us, then, a]>plaud our people and applaud this great character as 
being a just answer to much of the contumely and opprobrium that is 
aimed at the public life of this country. I can find no capital figure 
in the politics of other nations that more plainly .shows tint this is a 
path of honor, and in the sunlight, and arrives at the final glory of ita 
consummation. 

Mr. President, for some imperfection of our nature, -which we can not 
lay aside, it is said that the fullness of the heart and of admiration can 
not show itself. 

Not till the sacred dust of dcuth is shed 

On pMch dear niid reverent head, 

Nor love the living as we love the dead. 

If it be so, nevertheless it is a part of our nature that when thus lib- 
erated from the threat and fear and competition of the living, never- 
theless after this obscurity is removed, it is an honest and not a vague 
and extravagant judgment that gives prominence to the life and char- 
acter and removes the shade. 

The times are never idle and the busy fingers of the fates are ever 
weaving as in a tapestry the many threads and colors that malcc up our 
several lives, and when this is exposed to critics and to admirers there 
shall be found few of brighter colors or of nobler pattern than this life of 
General Logan. 

Mr. SABIN. Mr. President, the melancholy event which engages 
the attention of the Senate on this occasion accords with the course of 
nature, and must in due time overtake us all. 

While no man may hope successfully to contend against like conse- 
quence, our interest therein but increases as we near it. 

This interest, however, as it concerns another, is chiefly retrospective. 

The death of one having occupied so important a place in the service 
and affections of the public as General Logan naturally leads to a sur- 
vey of his life, and an inquiry into those personal qualites that molded 
his being into whatever fullness and roundness of outline it possessed. 
And I am pleased to find so many members of this body qualified with 
familiarity with General Logan's public and private life, and knowl- 
edge of the mainsprings of his conduct, who are ready to venture into 
this field of inquiry with a spirit of generous consideration to which 
his menioiy is conspicuously entitled. 

Hence, I approach with great diffidence so delicate a task, offering as 
my only excuse my personal admiration, esteem, and love for one of the 
best of men and noblest of characters. I shall, therefore, attempt to 



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treat the subject more IVom a per.sonal stauclpoiut and my own impreti- 
?<ious and experieuces. 

The personal and public history of General Logan is of that marked 
(liaracter, and so far reaching in its proportions, that it is impossible to 
encompass it within the tribute which the present occasion permits. I 
W-ave especially the history' of his marked and brilliant military career, 
liis devotion, services, and friendships to his comrades in arms during 
and since the war; to those who were with him in service during that 
long and sanguinary struggle, and who know so well how to speak of 
his labors and his victories. 

To follow the career of a life having within its bounds such a range 
I '("developments, and marked by so many acts which stand out in bold 
relief upon the panorama of our national progress, would require a lati- 
tude embracing space and time only to be covered throuirh the compi- 
lation of volumes. 

This session of the Senate has been dedicated to the offering of a trib- 
ute to him who but recently sat with us in council, and who, it is en- 
I irely within the limits of moderation to say, has lelt a stamp upon 
the public affairs of our country during the period of his life which 
time will not eflace while the Kepublic endures. The name of General 
.)ohn A. Logan is at once a glory to the American people and a natural 
heritage to future generations. He was a Colossus among the giants of 
American history. The impress of his individuality and genius must 
remain upon the institutions for the perpetuity and perl'ecting of which 
the lives of Washington, of Hamilton, of Jefferson, of Sumner, of Lin- 
coln, and of Grant were dedicated. 

Long before T had personal acquaintance with General Logan his 
name and fame had become an object of interest and pride to me in 
common with all other American citizens. 

' I think it w'as General Logan's attitude at the outbreak of the rebel- 
lion that first directed the attention of the public to him. A Douglas 
I )emocrat, he shared the confidence of that great leader. 

During the troublesome period intervening the first victory of the 
Ivepublican party in the election of Lincoln and the bombardment of 
.^umter Logan found his path of duty in companionship with life-long 
political associates, struggling in the fruitless endeavor to resist one of 
the greatest evolutionary movements of a people of which history 
speaks — a movement characterized by those who participated therein 
in terms appropriate to mere civil strife, but which in securing for us 
a more perfect Union may be discovered at this day to have been an 
evolutionary development of the Constitution. 

In tho.se days the mists which lowered in the political sky obscured 
the vision of our wisest men. But the fall of Sumter, like a fog-horn 
at sea, determined the course of Logan. For him party machinery 
had been a means of directing the united efforts of citizens sharing the 
same views of public polity. To divert the mechanism to other pur- 
jioses was to release him from party fealty. The Union was to him 
the paramount good, and party but a means of accomplishing it. 

That great chieftain, wnth palsied speech, and death seeking to ar- 
rest his hand, determinedly wrote the imperishable "memoirs," and 
deliberately recorded the first results of General Logan's example upon 
the people of Southern Hlinois. "As a result of Logan's speech at 
Springfield," writes General Grant, " every man enlisted for the war." 
What a glorious tribute did that great man thus render to the noble 
character whose memorv we honor to-dav. 



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Tvoyalty to the Union left IvO^^an no alternative, and he accepted it 
with'a resoluteness of purpose not afterward shaken. 

I . >;^an's life-current (lowed a steady, stronj:; stream ; and once directed 
against the forces of disunion nothinj^ could satisfy his ambitious courage 
hut the heat and labor of the d:iy in theforefront of the battle. Jfere, 
to the fulness of every patriot's hope, Logan served his country. Here, 
amid all the horrors of four long years of civil strife, Logan's character 
received those deep impressions which so intensified his subsequent 
utterances and lent vehemence to much of his alter life. 

Coiurad-'skip in the perils of battle was ever to him an all-sufficient 
claim upon his utmost service, and the genius of our institutions so 
molded his conduct toward all classes of people that his sympathy, 
with an appreciative comprehension of their situation and wants, secured 
for him their utmost confidence and esteem as a tribute of the people. 

Logan's opportunity for serving his country was not closed at Appo- 
mattox. 

The restoration of the reign of law in those regions long dominated 
by the force of arms, the readjustment of those comniuuities in their 
relations as members of the Union, the formulation of legal enact- 
ments demanded by the elevation of the black man into the light and 
liberty of American citizenship, the whole scheme of national restora- 
tion and civil rehahilitation known as "the period of reconstruction," 
called for ability equal iu importance to the demands of civil strife. 
In this new field was General Logan found the constant, etfective, and 
honored representative of the people, and the sturdy champion of tire 
most effective measures calculated to secure for the entire country the 
benefits of a restored Union. 

For over twenty years the untiring industry aud the genius of Gen- 
eral Logan as a statesman is to be found on almost every page of the 
records of the Mouse of Kepresentatives or of this Senate; aud it is a 
fact perhaps not generally known that General Logan originated and 
introduced more public measures than any other member; aud we, his 
colleagues upon this floor, r.re familiar with that record, which is des- 
tined to grow brighter and more legible with the lapse of time. 

Such w-as the openness and simplicity of his character and the can- 
dor of his demeanor that those ditfering most from him iu conviction 
were the first to yield him that respect and regard due aud given only 
to real nobility of character. 

Logan's character presents three distinct aspects — that which relates 
to his career and services as a soldier, that which considers his eminent 
ability and services as a statesman, and that which pertains to his whole 
career, from the growth of the boy to the lamented death of an honoi-ed 
man. It is presented not only to the people of America but to the 
whole civiliz'Ml people as a bright example to be held up to the illumi- 
nation as well as emulation of every youth begiuniug his struggle with 
the world. 

But who shall be able to do justice within the limits of a few min- 
utes' eulogium to the brilliant record of a soldier who abandoned rela- 
tionsof family, kindred and friends, of party popularity, arraying bitter 
hostilities to himself, throws his whole energy with all the power of his 
vigorous young manhood and enthusiasm against the armed enemy of 
his country. During the storm of misrepresentation which always 
assails a man of such marked character, the sublime heroism of General 
Logan's first act in that dreadful ordeal through which our country ' 



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passed has not yet received that appreciation which time and a consid- 
erate people will give it. 

The popular idol ot his party in a State of supreme importance during 
that crisis to the Union cause, recently elected after conducliug a brill- 
iant campaign by a large majority over his party opponent, with youth 
;uiil strength, rare intellectual endowment as his heritage, let it be 
considered lor a single moment what would have been the consequence 
if he with all his power and enthusiastic following had clung to the 
part}' of disunion. No man at this day can do more than form a con- 
jecture of the terrible disaster which might have followed such an 
event. 

Happily for the American Union, no such contingency was possible 
in the character of General J.ogau. In elevating him to honor and 
l»wer the constituency then at his back had ".sowed better than they 
knew." With a rare self-abnegation and devotion to his country, he 
resigned political position, and otlered his .services as a .soldier, in any 
ran k, to his imperiled Government. Thousands upon thousands rushed 
to the deiiense in that hour of national danger, and every honor is due 
them all. While the brilliant military genius of General Logan, con- 
fessedly the greatest volunteer soldier of his or any other time, served 
his country with patriotic force upon the field of battle, yet the in- 
fluence of his example in its efl'ects upon an element which he un- 
doubtedly turned from service against the Government seems, viewed 
from a dispassionate standpoint of subsequent developments, almost 
like a miraculous interposition in the affairs of men. 

Others upon this floor have touched in tlowery words and beautiful 
phrases upon these portions of our departed colleague's career, and t 
will only add the brief and feeling tribute of another to his military 
genius: 

Closing his career as a soldier at the end of the war in command of that army 
he loved so well, and whose tlevotion to hiui was so enthusiastic and unijaralleled, 
in tlie temple of fame, in the great galaxy of heroes, pure and bright as the sun, 
tirni and solid as the foundation of freedom, will John A. Logan forever stand. 
A soldier of transcendent military genius, a fearless, skillful, and accomplished 
leader, a peeramong the conimandersof armies, his name will godown to his- 
tory the synonym of purity, loyalty, and patriotism. 

Let me in brief terms refer to those traits of character which must 
ever be held as shining examples to the youth of the land. 

General Logan was born and reared under adverse circumstances of 
an etirly Western frontier life. In his day there was none of the edu- 
cational advantages possessed by the youth of the present time. Born 
in a cabin, his youth was passed in the hard labors of larm life. The 
lew mouths of winters' schooling were assiduously utilized by the boy 
whom nature had marked for a brilliant future. But the ambitious 
youth was not content with these meager advantages. After the toils 
of the day were over and when the youths of his age were enjoying the 
pleasures of a social country existence young Logan was poring over 
books in his lather's cabin and drawing from the fouutain of knowl- 
edge by the aid of a tallow dip and blazing tire in the old-fashioned 
log fire-place. 

Less than a half century ago the man whose loss is now mourned 
by the millious of America's Ireemeu might be seen as a boy lying on 
the lioor of his father's cabin, eagerly scanning his books in his thirst 
for knowledge, illuminated only by a flickering light, and intent upon au 
• education which fitted him lor that career he afterwards achieved. No 
more interesting picture can l)e placed before the youths of- America 



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than that which is thus presented by the amhignous genius, a<)serting 
itself and achieving its destiny through adverse conditions and sur- 
roundings. 

Fixing a standard of excelleuce high in the ideas of men, our dead 
colleague sought to reach the stars through almost insuraiounlable 
diflieulties. Through a long and uselul lile he maintained principlea 
which he had cultivated in youth; and amid all the brilliancy of hia 
service in tieUi and forum he left an untainted and unstained private 
and i)ul)lic character. 

What an eulogy is this brief and simple announcement ! A man en- 
joying unlimited opportunities that place and power conferred upon 
those of such strength of leadership, moving through an orbit of pub- 
lic functions lor a whole generation, resisting the biandislimeuts of 
wealth, faithfully serving his country, and in the end sinking to hia 
re,st poor in purse, though enormously rich in all of the virtues which 
ennoble humanity; indeed, this is a spectacle which must claim the 
admiration of the pure and the good, (ieueral Logan was a pure man 
and a good man. 

A Christian gentleman, a man of temperate, simple, and frugal hab- 
its, his private life was spotless. No man living ever dared to approach 
him with a corrupt proposal. 

It was indeed fitting that such qualities should have led the Repub- 
lican party to honor itself by honoring him with the nomination of 
Vice-President, a nomination that added great strength to the ticket, 
and will ever be regarded as a wise and considerate act. 

It is a common observation that General Logan was an ardent par- 
tisau. If by that exj'ression is meant that he ardently devoted him- 
self to the success of his party, it is doul)tless true; but he was not a 
blind partisan. That he looked to his duty to the countiy, sutBciently 
appears from his whole public life. Such partisanship represents the 
high pride of American citizenship, and by it Logan has been raised to 
an exalted place in the hearts of the people. It is an open secret, but 
not a matter of public history, and therefore not genejally known, that 
General Logan lelt his command in the field at the request of President 
Lincoln to bear a conspicuous part in the political campaigns during 
the darkest days of our Kepublic. In the light of these accusationa 
of partisanship, let me ask you to observe carefully his generous and 
kindly sentiments in the eloquent appeal to his fellowcitizeus in that 
liimous speech at Chicago in I8(j3: 

Under circumstances of this character, and surrounded by tlie perils that 
have heretofore been str;insrers to us, it behooves every citizen to pause and re- 
flect; to divest himself of all manner of j)rejudices, and to ask biuiself without 
regard to former party associations what duty he owes to himself, to his coun- 
try, and to future generations. It makes no difl'erence that you may liave been 
a Democrat, a Kepublican, or an Abolitionist, this (Jovernment was established 
by your fathers for you; it is a sacred trust committed to y<>u; the laws have 
been enacted by the people for themselves and tlieir protection, and no one can 
esoape the duty he owes to the Uovermiient to reverence its Constitution, to 
yield a respectful ol)edience to its laws. * * * 

May our untarnished escutcheon kiss every breeze that is wafted from the 
balmy waters of the South to the frozen regions of the North, or tliat comes 
from the golden plains of the far West to mingle with tliose in the Kast. May 
it be unfurled in honor and pride upon every ocean wliere civilization haa 
penetrated, and stand side by side with the banners of the proudest empiresof 
the earth. 

An inscrutible Providence has removed a great and good man, and 
the memories which cluster about his name as a member of this body 
are so Iresh and personal that we can scarcely realize the great loss 



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which this Senate and country has sustained; but his useful life and 
shining example are left to guide the feet of coming generations. 

His form we shall see no more, but his work and his character are 
ours forever; the body is dead, but the sj)irit lives — 

For there is no death ; 
The stars go down to shine on a fairer sliore, 
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown they shine forever more. 

More fitting words can not be said of oiir dear friend and lamented 
associate than his own touching and eloquent tribute to the memory 
of the immortal Lincoln: 

Yes, his sun has set forever: loyalty's gentle voice can no longer wake thrills 
of joy along the tuneless chords of his inoldering heart; yet patriots and lovers 
of liberty who still linger on the shores of time rise and bless his memory ; and 
niillicns yet unborn will in after-times rise to deplore his death and cherish as 
a household word his deathless name. 

Mr. PALMER. When the news reached me many thousand miles 
from here that General Logan was dead, I felt that something more than 
a great man had passed away. I felt that a great impelling force — a 
bulwark whose resistance had been never overcome — a cohesive power 
which bound together many atoms which otherwise would have been 
unrelated had been eclipsed. 

Among the many prominent characters that have come before the 
public gaze in the last twenty-live years he can be assigned to no second- 
ary place. Born in the then far West, where advantages were few, he 
had developed from within. He had evolved what was involved. All 
that he appeared to be he was. His nature could not tolerate mere- 
tricious aids if proffered. If he had been caught in the eddies and cy- 
clones of the French Kevolutiou he would have been Danton's coadju- 
tor, if not Danton him.self; Danton the furious, the generous, the nn- 
restrainable, the untamed. His motto would have been as was that of 
his prototype, to dare, and by that sign he would have saved his coun- 
try if human power could have availed. Placed in another environ- 
ment, inspired by other traditions, his daring was none the less con- 
spicuous, and he was none the less a factor in that memorable conflict 
which unified his native land. 

Born in Switzerland he would have been a Winkelried or au Hofer, 
had the exigencies of the times demanded. 

If there is to be a type of the Caucasian race to be known distinct- 
ively as the American, it will have as its substructure spiritually the 
pronounced traits which have made the name of Logan famous — di- 
rectness of aim, intrepidity of spirit, honesty of purpose, generosity for 
the vanquished, tendernessfor theweak, and catholicity of lieeliug for all. 
Some of tliese qualities were at times obscured in him because of the 
intensity of his nature, which subordinated all things to the demands 
of the time and occasion. 

He detested pretense. He denuded shams. He projected himself 
with such force that to me he seemed to have the dual nature of the 
catapult and the missile which it throws. 

Others have spoken of bis military career, of how he learned tactics 
and the manual at the cannon's mouth, of his legislative career with 
all the honor that attaches thereto; all this has become history. He 
enjoys the j)roud distinction, not only of military' leadership which he 
achieved in common with others but of that of a leader and controller 
of the minds of men. 

The spirit, the fire, the intensity, the insight, the fortitude which 



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made him effective at the head of his legions were none the less poteirt 
Avhen the sword was turnoil into the piuning-liouk and material force 
had been supplanted by legislative mithods. 

My acquaintance with General Logan wius confined to the last three 
years of his life, but 1 had known him ever since tliatfate/ul day when 
with his leader he was about to move on tlie enemy's works at Donel- 
son. I had watched him at Vicksbnrg — on the march to Atlanta. I 
had followed him to the field, when, recovering from his wonnds, he met 
his corps as it struck the sea on that dramatic march which captured 
the minds of men by the mystery which hung over it, the uncertiiinty 
of its outcome, the brilliancy of its execution, and the plenitude of ils 
results. I heard of him again in the Senate. 1 saw him in defeat and 
always without variableness or shadow of turning. His face as a sul)- 
altern was as lirml'y ti.xed on the objective point as if he had been in 
command. He was no Achilles furious in action, who could permit 
his bosom friend and thousands of his fellows to perish that he in'his 
tent might nurse and enjoy his wrath. 

He was a partisan; but he was a partisan becau.se he was a patriot. 
He did not "narrow his mind and give up to party what was meant 
for mankind," but he stuck to his party because it was his good sword 
excalibur with which he hoped to hew down giant wrongs and to ac- 
compli.sh great results for his fellow-man. 

He was direct ; because with the eye of a soldier and not through the 
lens of the schoolmen he saw the weak spot in the enemy's line an<i 
threw all he had and all he hoped for upon the salient point. His pur- 
pose did not " lose the name of action " by collateral is.sues. The side- 
tracks which divert or di.stract the philosophic or the less earnest might 
as well have not existed as lar as their effect on him was concerned. 

He wiis honest — not in the vulgar sense that he was unpurchasable 
with money — that goes without saying — but he had fixed views of right 
and wrong, and belbre the tribunal of his conscience he determined his 
course where the ways divided. 

He was intrepid; his temper, iron-like, grew by blows, and in debate, 
as in the field, opposing forces stimulated and sustained. 

He was generous; and although at times his indignation at real or 
supposed wrongs spurrtid him to extremity I never knew him to treasure 
up a hatred. 

I was thrown with him during the last Presidential contest for a sea- 
son in my own State. The canvass was bitter and exhausting. His 
capacity for work then illustrated was marvelous. The methods by 
which he reached the hearts of the people were spontaneous, subtle, and 
efl"ective. His progress was an ovation. He never appeared without 
evoking the most rapturous applause, and he never disappointed expec- 
tation. He carried about him an atmosphere that attracted and ce- 
mented men to him. The secret was he was in rapport with the heart 
of humanity. No man so low but felt he was a brother, no man so higli 
but felt he was his peer. 

In the Senate he united the valor of the soldier and the temper of 
the legislator to the tenderness of the child with its quick resentments 
quickly set aside. 

The last time I saw my friend he was at the head of a cavalcade at 
one of the fairs of our country. He had been impressed for the occa- 
sion and compelled to serve. He was the cynosure of all ejx's. The 
men cheered, the women waved their handkerchiefs, and the children 
loaded him with flowers. It was as much a triumphal march as ever 
went up the sacred way with captives from remotest Gaul. 



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But one short j'ear ago he helped to lay away his leader and friend in 
liis narrow cell mid all the pomp and circumstance which people love to 
lavish ou their heroic dead. .Suniiiioued by the same bugle-call to duty 
upon earth — the trunrpet that shall call the one to renewed elibrt in the 
great hereafter will rouse the other to share his labors, his joys, and his 
triumphs. He has fought the good fight; he has finished his course. 

li' in another age, under other conditions, he had died like Danton, 
on a scatlbld raised by those whom he had hel]ied to save (I can fancy), 
he would have said, as Danton said to his friend when the mob were 
howling for his blood, "Heed not that vile canaille, my friend;" and 
again, as he stepped upon the scaffold, "O my wife, my well beloved;" 
and I believe the historian would have said of him as of Danton, " No 
hollow formualist, deceptive and self-decei^tive ghastly to the uatural 
sense, was this; but a man — with all his dross he was a man, fiery real 
fron* the great fire bosom of nature herself" 

If, like iSidney, wounded and dying, he had hiin upon the battle- 
field he would have been equal to the re-enactment of the story which 
has made Sidney's name a sweet savour unto Christendom. 

But Providence had reserved him lor a kindlier fiite. The hand of 
afilction cooled his brow and his eye had lost its speculation and the 
ear its sensibility before the tears and moans of those he loved attested 
to others that the strong man had at last met a power that was silently, 
speedily, surely bearing him to the dark house and the long sleep. 

Amid the many heroic figures which stand out on the luminous back- 
ground of the past quarter of a century none will be regarded with 
more affection and interest than that sturdy and intrepid form por- 
trayed iu silhouette, clear cut and pronounced in its outlines as in its 
merital traits. 

Happy the State which has borne such a citizen. Thrice happy the 
peoiile who, appreciating his virtue.s, shall give him a place in the val- 
halla of her heroes lor the encouragement and inspiration of the youth 
of tlie future. 

Mr. FAKWELL. Mr. President, after the many eloquent words 
which have been said upon this mourniul occasion, I feel that any word 
which I could say would be idle and vain. 

General Logan was the bravest of soldiers, an able statesman, and 
an honest man. 

No higher tribute can be paid to man than this, and this is the ofier- 
ing which I bring. The late President of the United States, General 
Grant, said to me that he could never Ibrget General Logan's great serv- 
ices to his country. In battle always brave, never faltering, always 
ready. 

He is greatest who serves his country best. And shall we not class 
him as one of these? 

Mr. President, I second the resolutions of my colleague. 

The PRESIDENT ^ro tempore. The question is on the adoption of 
the resolutions. 

The resolutions were agreed to unanimously. 

Mr. CULLOM. I move, asa further mark of respect to the memory 
of General Logan, that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock and 2 minutes p. m.) 
the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Thursday, February 10, at 12 
o'clock m. 

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